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QUINDECENNIAL RECORD, 
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Quindecennial Record 

OF THE 

Class of Ninety- Two 

OF 

PRINCETON UNIVERSITY 




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NEW YORK 

THE GRAFTON PRESS 

1907 




James Ormsbee Murray, D.D., LL.D. 



DEAN MURRAY 

WE cannot allow a portrait of the Dean — he will ever 
remain " the Dean " in Ninety-two's memories — to 
appear in this book without a brief tribute of our affection. 
The last time, as a class, we saw him, it was on the steps of 
his house during our Quinquennial, when he welcomed us back 
and alluded again to his appreciation of our desire in June, 
1892, that he should preach our Baccalaureate Sermon when 
the President proved unable to officiate. The telegram of sym- 
pathy sent to him by a meeting of the Class during his illness 
in March, 1899, deeply touched him. And when he died — on 
March 27, 1899 — a delegation of the Class attended his funeral. 
It would be difficult to tell how Ninety-two's intimacy with 
the Dean sprang up, or exactly why we loved him as we did. 
He was not a teacher who sought popularity. We felt the 
gentle manliness, the honest transparency of his beautiful char- 
acter. He was bigger than his office ; we forgot the officer in 
the scholar, the man, the friend. 




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CLASS OFFICERS AND COMMITTEES 

President: John Benem Kouwenhoven. 

Secretary and Treasurer : William Kelly Prentice. 

Memorial Committee: 

1892 — 1895 : John W. Easton, C. W. Hillyer, Charles 

0. MuDGE. 

1895 — 1902: Chairman, Howard C. Butler; Secretary 
and Treasurer, C. O. Mudge, (1895-97), 
F. J. Moses (1897-1902) ; G. W. Burleigh, 
A. W. Butler, E. D. Duffield, J. W. 
Easton, C. W. Hillyer, J. B. Kouwen- 
hoven, W. K. Prentice, J. B. Riggs. 

1906—1907 : G. W. Betts, M. V. Bergen, M. A. Christy, 
P. F. Cook, Richard Coulter, Jr., W. K. 
Prentice, J. G. Wilson. 

Reunion Committee: Chairman, George W. Burleigh; Treas- 
urer, James Westervelt ; Charles D. 
Hart. 

Class Record Committee: H. C. Butler, V. L. Collins, W. K. 
Prentice. 



PREFACE 

To the Class: 

Your Committee appointed to prepare and publish the Quin- 
decennial Record herewith presents the results of its labors. 
Labors is the word all right. 

Not including the 23 deceased members listed in the 
Necrology, the names of 186 graduates and non-graduates 
appear in the following pages. Of this number 11 have not 
responded to our repeated requests for material; 3 are living 
in retirement; and of 11 others we do not know the present 
whereabouts. Concerning these 25 men we have supplied what 
facts we could. We fear that two or three are dead; most of 
them we know are living. We have no explanations to offer 
for the delinquents, this volume being advertised to contain 
only " what's fit to print." It may be noticed, however, that all 
the graduates of the Class have responded. 

In the hope then that our work will meet your approval, 
supply a long-felt want, and warm the cockles of your hearts, 
we salute you. 

Howard Crosby Butler, 
Varnum Lansing Collins, 
William Kelly Prentice. 



CONTENTS 

PAGE 

History of the Class ........ 1 

The Changes of Fifteen Years at Princeton ... 9 
Biographies . . . . . . . . .19 

Necrology .......... 247 

The Hot Air Furnace ....... 255 

Summary .......... 273 



HISTORY OF THE CLASS 



To the Glorious Class of '92, Greeting: 

When we graduated it seemed to us that there never had 
been a Class so united and loyal, and never could be another. 
We had not been tried. Now we have had fifteen years of 
experience: the class officers have not been always attentive to 
class business, the class committees have had lapses of activity, 
the class members generally have suffered from chronic pro- 
crastination. The truth is that most of us have been very 
busy. Some of the Class have been so far away in body or in 
spirit, that they themselves believed that they had lost touch 
with the College and with the Class, a calamity which once 
seemed unthinkable to us all. But now, when fifteen years are 
over, and each has made his place in the world, it behooves to 
review our history as a Class, and to consider what we have 
accomplished. The records of the individual members of the 
Class will follow: here you have the record of the Class 
Organization. 

In the first year after our graduation we held five reunions, 
exclusive, of course of our graduation dinner. At the first of 
these, held at Muschenheim's in New York City on June 18, 
1892, there were only twenty-seven present. But that is not 
to be wondered at, under all the circumstances. The motions, 
adopted on that occasion, were embodied in the secretary's first 
circular, dated July 15, 1892: two of these demand republica- 
tion, since they were designed to have a permanent application. 
They are: 



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" 1. That at nine o'clock on the evening before the Yale- 
Princeton football game, and at nine o'clock on the evening of 
December 31, each year, every member of the Class, wherever 
he may be, drink three toasts, one to Princeton College, one to 
the memory of the members of the Class who have passed away, 
and one to the Glorious Class of '92." 

" 2. That all members of this Class who at any time in the 
future may have brothers or sons in Princeton should notify 
the Class Secretary in order that he may notify all other mem- 
bers of the Class, that any who have occasion to visit Princeton 
may know where to seek hospitality in the name of the Glorious 
Class." 

Our second reunion was at the " Arena " also, on November 
23, and then there were sixty-four of us on hand. At that time 
the class roll contained 209 names, including those who left 
college before we graduated. Two more reunions were held in 
that same year before Commencement ; these were both held in 
Princeton, one on Washington's Birthday, and the other, I 
think, in April. And then our first annual reunion in June. 
So we began well. Since then we have held a reunion each year 
at Commencement time, although a few times recently this 
reunion has consisted in our taking part together in the peerade 
to and at and from the Commencement game. But generally 
we have had a dinner at Commencement and also at some other 
time, usually in New York in the Autumn. At our Triennial 
Reunion in June, 1895, there were sixty-eight present, and on 
this occasion our second Memorial Committee was appointed, 
consisting of ten members, and all that they did, behold it is 
written in the report published by the Class Secretary, June 
1, 1903. In June, 1896, we held a small reunion at which there 
were only twent3 r -five present, Mrs. Henry Campbell serving 
the dinner at her apartments on Dickinson Street. This 
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was on October 22, at Odd Fellows' Hall, Witherspoon Street, 
when the University was celebrating the sesquicentennial of its 
founding. I do not know how many of us were present then ; 
but I know that I hold a receipt, signed by H. D. Thompson, 
secretary, for seventy-five lanterns used by the Class of '92 in 
the peerade on October 21. 

In April, 1897, George Burleigh, who styled himself then 
" Secretary de facto," but who was in fact good and regular 
Secretary of the Class, the present secretary having resigned 
famous " '92 Dutch Company," which held a good many sue- 
that honorable office and having fled the country, organized the 
cessful sessions and did much to promote class spirit. 

June 11 to 14, 1897, the Class held its Quinquennial Reunion, 
the chief est event of which was the dinner at Ivy Hall on June 
the twelfth. The following passage from the Duke's prelimi- 
nary circular will serve to recall this occasion to those who were 
fortunate enough to be present : " The Class of '92, forming 
on the campus, will proceed to their headquarters by a cir- 
cuitous route, and partake of a Reunion Dinner at 7 p. m. 
At 7.30, presentation of our Class Cup to Henry Wheeler 
Young, who will walk down the table to receive his cup from 
the hands of our Class President. Toasting and congratula- 
tory offering to Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Young and the Class 
Boy, in acknowledgment of this additional blessing to the Class 
of '92." It was on this occasion that the poem to the 
Class Boy, by Wilkie Collins, was read ; a copy of the poem 
is filed in the archives of the Class. 

At the subsequent reunions until the Decennial, no such in- 
teresting occurrences are recorded. At the dinner on June 8, 
1901, however, a Reunion Committee was appointed, to have 
charge of all reunions of the Class for all time to come. This 
committee, whose names will be found on another page, abun- 
dantly justified their existence by the splendid Decennial Re- 
union held under their administration from June 6 to June 11, 



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1902, for which all men unite in praising the Class of '92 and its 
Reunion Committee. At the dinner at the Princeton Inn on 
June 9, 1902, George Burleigh having refused to be considered 
Class Secretary any longer, the former secretary was re- 
elected to his sinecure position, and has not been discharged 
since. The second Memorial Committee having also retired, 
the task of providing for a Class Memorial was entrusted to the 
Class Secretary for the present, and power was given to him 
and to the President of the Class to appoint a new Memorial 
Committee, when this should seem desirable. A committee to 
produce a Class Record was also appointed at this meeting, 
consisting of Howard Butler, Wilkie Collins, and the Class 
Secretary ; they have finally produced a Record, in spite of the 
procrastination of the members of the Class. 

Since 1902 we have not had a formal banquet. We have 
been economizing with a view to the large projects we had 
undertaken. We have, however, held informal gatherings. 
One of these was typical of the informal reunions of the Class 
in recent years, and, partly for that reason, the minutes are 
given here in full. These minutes also contain, both explicitly 
and implicitly, certain suggestions for the years to come. 

" Friday, December 16, 1904. A dinner of '92 was held at 
the New Hotel Astor, the new palace of our old friend, Mr. 
Muschenheim. Present : Aikman, Atkinson, Ball, Bailey, 
Benet, Bradley, Burleigh, Carter, Church, P. Cook, Denniston, 
Doty, Duffield, Hale, Hall, Kouwenhoven, McWilliams, Moses, 
Prentice, Roberts, Stevenson, Wight, and Williams. The 
Baron presided, the Duke talked. Lon Church knocked a little 
and was reproved by the Duke. Freddie Moses nearly had his 
feelings hurt. The Secretary made no great speech. The 
Duke told at great length of the last meeting of the Dormitory 
Committee, at which he represented the Class. Some money 
was subscribed for the Class Memorial [but most of this was 







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never paid]. It was decided that there was too much dunning 
at reunions and not enough reunions. It was also decided to 
revive the '92 Dutch Company, the Duke to call the first meeting 
in January, and after that someone else to take charge of the 
arrangements. It was decided to ask other '92 men in other 
cities to start similar organizations. 

" The rear guard, consisting of the Duke, the Secretary, and 
four privates, retired at 1 a. m. in good order. 

" J. Besson, Brewster, Homans, Stork and Stump, having 
engaged places at the dinner and having failed to attend, were 
charged two dollars apiece by the Secretary. J. Besson, 
Brewster and Stump paid." 

There was also a meeting of loyal members of the Class at 
the Hofbrau Haus in New York City on November 16 last, to 
provide assistance to the Secretary in raising the money due 
for the Class Memorial, and also in collecting from procrastina- 
tors biographical material and photographs for the Class 
Record. 

The Class published its first Record in 1894 at the end of 
the second year after our graduation. Twice since then a list 
of addresses has been published in pamphlet form. The 
present volume completes the list of our Class publications. 
All these publications have been paid for from the general 
Class fund. 

The Class further procured for itself, by special subscription, 
the large silver loving-cup which most of us know, and which is 
used at our reunion banquets. We have presented to our Class 
Boy a loving-cup which is a token of the affection which we 
feel for him. We have started a movement which, in spite of 
some difficulties and disagreements, has resulted in the erection 
of a dormitory by the ten classes, '92-'01, each of which has 
made an entry in this dormitory, its memorial gift to the Uni- 
versity. Other classes are following our example, and already 



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there are plans for a series of similar buildings which shall 
enclose the Brokaw Field on the east and south sides, and in 
which an indefinite number of classes may participate. Our 
own dormitory is already in use. It has been named Patton 
Hall, and the following is the letter, signed by the representa- 
tives of the classes concerned, and presented to Dr. Patton by 
the Secretary of '92: 

" Francis Landey Patton, D.D., LL.D., Princeton, N. J. 

" Sir: — The ten classes from 1892 to 1901, who have recently 
presented a dormitory to the University, have desired to give 
it a name intimately associated with the progress of Princeton. 

" We have therefore unanimously decided to call the building 
' Patton Hall,' believing that in this way we shall also indicate 
the respect and admiration with which our classes regard you, 
under whose administration as President of Princeton Univer- 
sity our undergraduate courses were spent." 

To this letter the following answer from Dr. Patton was 
received : 

" Springdale, Princeton, New Jersey, 30th March, 1906. 
" Gentlemen : 

" I have the honor to be informed through your kind letter, 
which I shall always keep as a cherished possession, that my 
name has been given to the new Dormitory which the graduates 
for whom you are acting have presented to the University. 

" I thank you most sincerely for being made the recipient 
of an unusual compliment, and I am especially grateful for the 
sentiment of personal regard which prompted your action. 

" The new Hall is a worthy memorial of the classes concerned 
in its erection and will be a living witness to their loyal devotion 
to their Alma Mater. 

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handsome building my name will be permanently associated 
with ten of the classes whose members spent their undergraduate 
days in Princeton University during the period of my admin- 
istration of its affairs. 

" I am, faithfully yours, 

" Francis L. Patton." 

Our share in the cost of this building, thirteen thousand 
dollars, will be paid in full this June. There is good reason to 
hope that, except for the running expenses of the Class, which 
are fortunately light, the Class may be free from subscriptions 
and from dunning for Class purposes for perhaps a decade to 
come. One thing, however, remains to be said. Too much of 
the burden of Class expenses has been borne by a small group 
of men. What we have accomplished would not have been possi- 
ble if the men who attended the meeting last November had not 
stood by the Class handsomely. For on that occasion twenty- 
two men underwrote the Class undertakings to the extent of 
about thirty-five hundred dollars in addition to their own sub- 
scriptions, with the understanding that, if the other members 
of the Class defrayed their proper share of the Class expenses, 
this money should be repaid to the underwriters. Nearly all 
of these underwriters had already paid all, or more than all, 
that they should have contributed. And members of the Class 
who have not paid their subscriptions to the fund should con- 
sider that they have laid on others a burden which they them- 
selves, in loyalty, should bear. 

William Kelly Prentice, 

Secretary. 

Princeton, N. J., February 16, 1907. 




McCosh V 



THE CHANGES OF FIFTEEN YEARS 
AT PRINCETON 



EVERY now and then 1 meet upon the campus a graduate 
of some class away back in the '60's or '70's who has 
returned to Princeton for the first time since graduation, and 
who wants to know the name of this or that building, by whom 
it was built, and for what purpose. With each of these men it 
is the same story : all are aghast at the great changes that have 
taken place here since they were in college. But men who were 
here in the early '80's talk in about the same way, and, indeed, I 
believe that our classmates, of whom I hope there are few who 
have not seen Princeton since June, 1892, must be of the same 
mind, with regard to these changes, as the men who graduated 
before most of the members of '92 were born. 

All this means that the great outward transformation of 
Princeton has taken place since we went out from our Alma 
Mater. It is hard to say whether the external, physical changes, 
or those which are internal and have to do with life and work 
in Princeton, are the greater. Every Princeton man, I am sure, 
will agree that they are all for the best. This is not purely 
optimism, nor the prejudiced view of one who is in daily 
contact with University affairs and is blind to Princeton's 
defects ; but it is the opinion of every graduate that I know 
who has taken time to know Princeton well, and to keep in touch 
with the life of the place. 

Some familiar objects are gone, gone to our regret; some 
well-remembered spots are no longer as they were; but in 

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every case something more beautiful, or, at least, more useful 
to the University, has filled their places. East College, the old 
home of some of us, and full of associations for all, is no more. 
The old Chapel, the scene of our early oratorical efforts, and 
of those exciting doings of Washington's Birthday, when 
" birds of a feather flocked together," and the Class yelled 
itself hoarse in praise of '92, is gone; but those of us who have 
come, by daily observation, to know what a world of usefulness 
to the University is represented by the successor of the old 
landmarks, even those of us who were most regretful at seeing 
them go, have learned that they are worthily succeeded by the 
new library. This great new building is not a mere repository 
of books in which volumes are grudgingly handed out during a 
few hours each day, but a real library, open from early 
morning until ten at night, well lighted and comfortable, where 
students of all classes, in ever increasing numbers, may be seen 
at all library hours consulting books, making notes or reading 
for the simple pleasure of it. In this we may see an example 
of the internal as well as the external change that has come 
over Princeton since our day. 

But let me dwell first upon the changes that appeal to the 
eye, for they are the first to be noticed by anyone who is not 
often in Princeton, and let me begin at the point where, in our 
freshman year, a woodland path connected the campus with 
Prospect Avenue, where now one finds the stately, elm-shaded 
way dignified by the name of McCosh Walk. Here in his 
latter years one might meet the Old Doctor walking with Mrs. 
McCosh, who, I am glad to say, still graces Princeton with 
her noble and venerable presence, and here, as he became 
more feeble, a seat was made for him, and the passing students 
would hear his cheerful " Hoo are ye! " on their way to their 
clubs, and learned to love the old man as we had loved him in 
our day. One of the finest and largest of our new buildings, 
McCosh Hall, a magnificent recitation building, is approach- 




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CHANGES OF FIFTEEN YEARS 11 

ing completion on the north side of the walk, extending from 
the Marquand Chapel to Washington Street. 

The front campus remains as it was in our time, but for a 
new iron fence and three fine monumental gateways on Nassau 
Street, built as part of the Fitz-Randolph memorial. A large 
triple gateway stands directly in front of Old Nassau and 
smaller gates were placed at the entrances near the Dean's 
house and below the library. 

The lot behind Reunion, where we used to kick football and 
knock up flies, was already chosen for the site of a new build- 
ing while we were seniors ; '94 saw Alexander Hall completed. 
With its wealth of exterior carving and interior mosaics it is 
unquestionably the costliest building ever erected for the hold- 
ing of Commencement exercises and other college functions. 
The old First Church no longer resounds to the oratorical 
flights of Salutatorians and Valedictorians. The use of Alex- 
ander Hall is by no means narrowly restricted ; for of late 
years we have often been treated to Shakespeare there, given 
by good players in " the Shakespearean manner." Another 
obvious change ! 

How well we all remember the slope between the old gym- 
nasium and the railway station, and the stretch of irregular 
ground, half field and half marsh, that lay between Wither- 
spoon, Edwards, and the railway, including the field where 
several '92 men played in the last lingering years of lacrosse's 
popularity at Princeton. It is here, perhaps, that the great- 
est physical changes have taken place, for all along this bound- 
ary of the campus our famous wall-dormitory and the new 
gymnasium have been placed. About the time of the Sesqui- 
centennial the happy idea was conceived of separating the 
campus from the town and from other neighbors by a series of 
long, low dormitories, like an inhabited wall, with gates in 
it here and there with towers above them, and now that the 
University has come into practical possession of all the prop- 



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erty on the south side of Nassau Street, it looks as if this scheme 
could be easily carried out. Blair Hall was the first attempt 
at carrying out this idea. It begins just south of the Observa- 
tory, extending along University Place, turning a right angle 
at the corner and then, running along the slope toward Wither- 
spoon, to a massive tower with a great arch below it, about 
where the old steps to the station used to be. A fine flight of 
stone steps leads down from the arch. Blair tower, with its 
lofty pinnacles, its spacious arch and broad steps, is perhaps 
the finest bit of architecture in Princeton, or even the finest 
bit of college architecture in America, and it is fortunately the 
first thing that the visitor's eye rests upon. Beyond the tower, 
Blair Hall turns another angle and stops beside the west end 
of Witherspoon. At this point there is a slight drop and a 
narrow roadway, and then Upper and Lower Little Halls con- 
tinue the wall along the west side of the old Lacrosse field, 
turning eastward to make a quadrangle with Edwards and 
Witherspoon, and turning southward again to where the little 
old ice pond used to be, but where now stands the pride of the 
Alumni — the new Gymnasium — with its trophy hall and swim- 
ming tank, one of the most complete buildings of its kind in 
the world. A uniform style of architecture was fortunately 
chosen for this entire series of buildings, — Blair Upper and 
Lower Little and the Gymnasium, — which extends for several 
hundred yards along the western boundary of the campus, and 
this style — the Collegiate Gothic, so characteristic of Oxford 
and Cambridge — seems to have become the one for the future 
development of Princeton. It is highly suitable, not only on 
account of its origin, but because of its grace in adapting itself 
to rural surroundings, and uneven surface conditions. 

Adjoining the far end of the new Gymnasium on the east 
comes the Brokaw Memorial building, designed by Joe Huston, 
with its arch that forms an entrance to the Brokaw Field, and 
its side rooms that were once dressing-rooms for the field 




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and the Brokaw swimming tank, but which is now given over 
to such uses as rooms for the French Club. The name of one 
of our classmates is thus associated with one of the most beau- 
tiful parts of the campus. 

When Dod Hall was erected in the cornfield behind the 
Halls it seemed quite far out in the country ; it is now near 
the center of undergraduate life. The Class of '92 saw Whig 
and Clio Halls practically completed, saw Dod finished, and 
the grading of the cornfield, where we buried the flat bat in 
Junior year, begun. We were hardly out of college before 
Brown Hall was added to the campus, to the southeast of Dodd, 
and a new quadrangle was formed with the two Halls and the 
Art Museum. That seemed like the end in that direction ; but 
now the meadows far down the slope are within the campus, 
and the double row of elms which bordered the path that led 
down to Potter's woods is an avenue. At its top stands Patton 
Hall, its first entry bearing the numerals '92. This new dormi- 
tory extends in ten entries southward along the avenue of elms, 
overlooking Brokaw Field, and an extension of it has been 
planned to bound the entire eastern and southern limits of that 
field. 

The Art Museum is still wingless ; but below it extends the 
President's garden beautifully laid out, and below that is a 
broad, well-made path that branches in one direction to the 
Infirmary on Washington Road and, in another, to the end of 
Prospect Avenue. " Prospect," the president's house, is thus 
within the campus, and not on its outer edge, as it used to be. 
East of " Prospect," out where the lonely grave of Catherine 
Bullock used to excite ghastly fears on darksome nights, 
stands another new dormitory, that built by the class of '79. 
This is another part of the proposed campus wall, and its cen- 
tral tower and great arch face the head of Prospect Avenue. 
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Within the campus itself various improvements have been 
carried on. The building of the Philadelphian Society has been 
enlarged by the addition of a large library, reading-room and 
four class prayer-meeting rooms, besides an apartment for the 
general secretary. It is now called Murray-Dodge Hall, and 
the new part is connected with the old by a cloister walk ; the 
old hall being still used for large meetings. 

The dinosaurs, icthiosaurs and other gruesome tenants of 
the main hall of Old North have been banished, and the great 
room has been handsomely done over in the style in which it 
is supposed to have been when the Continental Congress met 
within its walls. It is now called the Council Chamber and 
serves for meetings of the faculty and as a starting place for 
academic processions. It is proposed to convert the whole 
interior of Nassau Hall into administration rooms, so that the 
grand old pile will be actually, as well as sentimentally, the 
center of the University. The old dormitories, heated by 
steam, lighted by electricity and provided with baths, are far 
more luxurious than they were in our day, and one building is 
almost as comfortable as any other. Throughout the newer 
parts of the campus much grading and planting has been done, 
so that the whole presents the appearance of a park. 

Away from the campus the parts of Princeton most inti- 
mately connected with college life are, of course, the Varsity 
Field and the Street of Clubs. The appearance of the old field 
has greatly altered since we won the baseball championship of 
the College. A new field house, a baseball cage, a greatly 
enlarged grandstand, and huge uncovered stands make it look 
more like Manhattan Field than like its old self. We have 
probably the most beautiful diamond of any college. Every- 
thing about the whole athletic field is much more convenient 
and comfortable and cleanly than in our time. While we were 
in college there were only a couple of clubs that had their own 
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own lots and have fine club houses, situated on one side or the 
other of Prospect Avenue. Almost every house on that fine, 
broad avenue is now a club with an average membership of 
about 30 Seniors and Juniors. The new Commons provides 
for most of the freshmen, and the number of men dependent 
upon the boarding houses is thus greatly reduced; moreover, 
the boarding houses have been improved by competition with 
the Clubs and the Commons. The club system was the nat- 
ural outgrowth of conditions prevalent in Princeton in our 
day. Poor food at high rates, bad service and cheerless and 
often unclean surroundings were not to be borne for four 
years, and such conditions were not conducive to mental or 
moral well-being. Group after group of students broke from 
the old regime and secured houses for themselves and provided 
for their own food and service. These groups became perma- 
nent by elections from the lower classes, funds were raised and 
property was bought and houses of greater or less cost were 
erected. These clubhouses provided comfortable accommoda- 
tions and pleasant surroundings for the alumni members 
whenever they should return ; this met a long-felt want in 
Princeton, and the upper class clubs have become an important, 
perhaps an almost too important, factor in Princeton life. 

Those of us who live in Princeton, and have opportunity to 
observe the trend of undergraduate life, are often asked what 
effect all these changes are having on the undergraduate — the 
coming Princeton man. There are many of the older alumni, 
even some of the men of our own time, who seem to be dubious 
as to the influence of all these things upon the student, and 
who seem to feel, that by reducing the hardships of college life 
and providing all sorts of luxuries unheard of in the old days, 
Princeton is in danger of turning out an effete race of 
graduates incapable of facing the hard knocks of life that come 
when they leave college. If, in her new development, Prince- 
ton knew no other changes, if the morning bath, the splendid 



16 PRINCETON NINETY-TWO 

gymnasium, the luxurious club were all that she had to offer 
in addition to all that was offered fifteen to twenty years ago, 
I should feel that there was something in these fears. But the 
new luxuries are offset, completely, I think, by other things 
that are an integral part of Princeton's new life, and the gen- 
eral belief on the part of the closest observers, in and out of 
Princeton, is that the Princeton student of to-day is not 
materially changed in the midst of all these outward changes, 
except for the better. The Princeton spirit that we all know 
and are so proud of, has not changed ; the undergraduate is 
certainly cleaner, better fed, and better dressed; he is also 
cleaner morally and better equipped in mind; but he is the 
same Princeton man at heart. These offsets to the softer condi- 
tions of living, though less conspicuous, are perhaps the most 
important of the changes introduced here since our gradua- 
tion. Among them may be mentioned the raising of the 
requirements for entrance and for remaining in college, the 
introduction of the Preceptorial System, and the general effort 
to bring the student into greater sympathy with his work and 
with his teachers. Men enter college better equipped for their 
work, and when they have entered, every facility and aid is 
offered to keep them in. Close contact between the student and 
the teacher and careful oversight of his work at once stimu- 
late a greater interest on the part of the student and work 
becomes less like drudgery. Many a student has said to me 
that to fail in enough studies to drop from one's class a fellow 
must be either intentionally negligent, willfully obtuse, or so 
dull that he would be better off never to have come to college. 

This is not the place to describe the Preceptorial system and 
its workings ; there are papers by President Wilson, Dean West 
and Professor Hibben that do the subject justice: but the new 
scheme, together with other changes in methods of teaching 
and in the regulation of courses, are working, and have already 
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no one would say that Princeton students are now all " pollers ; " 
I would not urge that all of them are even serious students ; 
but they all work, they all accomplish something, because they 
must do so if they remain here, and they accept the situation 
gracefully. There are some who grumble about their hard 
lot ; but these same men, when they are at home or among 
friends outside of Princeton, enjoy boasting that it is no 
" cinch " to remain in college, and, with a few exceptions, 
they are proud of the improved condition of affairs. 

There is certainly a far larger proportion of men who are 
really interested and get enjoyment out of their work than 
there used to be. It seems strange to those who have not become 
accustomed to it to hear the fellows discussing or arguing about 
their work ; yet this is now a very common thing to hear among 
all grades of students, and it is not put on or forced, but quite 
as natural as if they were discussing a game. Yet they talk 
about football and baseball just as much as ever; you never 
hear them raving over the Odes of Pindar or discussing the 
influence of taboo on primitive thought on the bleachers before 
a game ; they are not prigs ; they are the same good-natured, 
happy-go-lucky, irresponsible, inconsistent, lovable youths that 
we knew, but work has at last found a place with them all, 
and they are far better for it. 

And what of us? What of those who have the privilege of 
taking part in all these transformations, and of watching them 
from the inside? What of the poor old faculty? I have, of 
course, no means of comparing the new conditions with the old 
on this score ; but I know we have a happy lot. Interest in 
our work for these new Princetonians, and in our own outside 
work, makes life well worth living. In so large a group of 
educated and cultivated men every one should be able to find 
congenial associates. Everybody in Princeton seems to be doing 
something worth while, and the society is interesting. The 
Nassau Club and a number of small clubs that meet at stated 



18 PRINCETON NINETY-TWO 

intervals with more or less serious purpose afford opportunity 
for the pleasant spending of one's leisure hours. Few of us 
are troubled by breaks in the stock market, not because we 
are all bears, but for better reasons. Some of the faculty 
are athletic, others enjoy farming or gardening. This is a 
peaceful life, intensely interesting to most of us. The new 
system keeps us all pretty hard at work in term time; but we 
have a longer vacation than most people and this we may use 
for work or play as we choose. 

Princeton has changed, Princeton has grown, she has im- 
proved. She will continue to change; for without change she 
must stagnate, and with the hearty support and devotion of her 
alumni which has never failed her, she will continue to grow 
and to improve. 

Howard Crosby Butler. 



BIOGRAPHIES 



LUCIEN ABRAMS 

Artist. Address, 9 rue Falguiere, Paris, France. Unmarried. 

1UCIEN is the only painter in the class. He and Ben White 
JL took Art 4 seriously while in college. Now Lucien paints 
and Ben builds. Joe Huston didn't take Art 4 ; he had had 
it before he came to college, and he too builds. Howard Butler 
took it, and is now teaching it, but under the cabalistic nu- 
merals of 33, 34, 43, 44, 103, 104, and 106. You see times 
have changed; but Art is long — longer than it used to be. 

Lucien continued his Art 4 at the Art Students' League, New 
York, getting out before the Anthony Comstock raid, and going 
to Paris, where he entered the Academie Julian. The rest of his 
story is told in his letter, which has in itself a whiff of exotic 
atmosphere that is refreshing. Painting and music are his 
chief delight, and in pursuit of the Goddess Art he has travelled 
in Italy (1896), Belgium and Holland (1900 and 1903), Spain 
(1901), and Northern Africa (1905). It was on this last 
innocent expedition that he fell among thieves, like the gentle- 
man who was going down to Jericho, and was stripped of all 
his possessions. He says he seldom sees a '92 man in Paris, 
though he did once run across Fish Hall, and at a Princeton 
dinner met Jesse Williams, and on another occasion acted as 
guide and interpreter to poor Billy Schick, who was in Paris 
for two weeks. " He left with his steamer ticket and five 
dollars, while I went home to rest." 

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20 PRINCETON NINETY-TWO 

" Paris, January 31, 1907. 
" My dear Kelly : 

" At last I send you my statistics, photograph, and a letter. 
You may use this in its entirety or expurgate at your pleasure. 
You'll get my subscription if I have to sell a picture ! Had a 
letter from Wilkie Collins recently, which recalled old times 
and did something towards stirring me up. It put me in mind 
of the coming reunion and made my desire to be there even 
stronger than before. 

" No doubt you are all by now professors, bank presidents, or 
only common or garden millionaires, but I think of you as I 
knew you. Am considering seriously the question of returning 
to the States and attending the reunion. The announcement of 
the reunion makes me ask myself, ' can it be possible? ' and also 
reminds me that I have missed all of the reunions since gradua- 
tion. This has happened principally for geographical reasons. 
That is to say, since leaving Princeton, except for two winters 
in New York, my life has been spent in Europe, with Paris as 
headquarters, with the pursuit of the elusive art of painting as 
my object. 

" After a year or two of academic drudgery, I gave up the 
schools. For quite a while was confused in the maze of Parisian 
art. I worked some but did more dreaming and trying to col- 
lect my ideas. Visited Italy, where I spent several months. 
Came back and went to the country near Paris. 

" An American painter of note asked me, in reference to a 
decorative painting which I was about to do, ' Did you ever 
see any nymphs ? ' Then said : ' Why don't you look at the 
beauty round about you and paint? ' 

" Since then I have tried to express the beauty of reality. 

" A couple of months spent in Madrid studying and copying 
Velasquez did me much good. In painting he was so far in 
advance of his own time that he is now especially instructive 
to painters of the present day. 



BIOGRAPHIES 21 

" A couple of years ago I attended a Princeton dinner, where 
it did me good to hear the old songs again. Was in the States 
last in '04, during which visit I saw the St. Louis Exposition 
and afterwards painted landscapes in Maine and Connecticut. 
Last winter with a fellow painter, I crossed the Mediterranean 
to Algiers. This place, though interesting at first, is become 
too much Europeanized, so we pushed on in pursuit of the real 
thing. We ended at Bon Sa'ada, ' place of happiness,' where 
we found Arabs and camels enough to suit the most exacting. 
To reach it one travels by rail for a day up on a high plateau, 
then rising at 2 a. m., across the mountains in a lumbering 
diligence down to the plain and palm trees beyond. The last 
day one spends in a bone-breaking kind of ' Deadwood coach,' 
drawn by seven or eight horses across the sands of the Sahara. 

" To rest the horses, one has to walk a few miles now and 
then. At last the oasis of date palms and Bon Sa'ada are seen, 
and one agrees with the Arabs in calling it ' place of happiness.' 
Aside from the French officers there are very few Europeans. 

" We stopped there until the 15th of May, seeing much of 
Arab life and making many studies, for there was nothing else 
to do. 

" I have exhibited at the Salons for half a dozen years, and 
have sent several pictures to American exhibitions. Now am 
thinking of returning to my native land to settle down. 

" Will attend the reunion if possible. 

" Best wishes to all of the class." 



22 PRINCETON NINETY-TWO 

WALTER M. AIRMAN, JR. 

Business. Address, Central Stamping Co., 591 Ferry Street, 
Newark, N. J. Residence, 47 South Street, Newark, N. J. 

Married Alice Daise Burton, Chicago, October 14, 1903. Children, 
Ruth, b. July 1, 1906; d. July 3, 1906. 

AS Wallie's admirable synopsis of his activities shows, he 
L has held various positions in electrical business, street 
railroading, and tinware manufacturing since the good old 
days when his hobby was other people's thermometers. Now 
his hobby is mechanics ; and it is commonly said around Prince- 
ton that thermometers have been a drug on the local market since 
he left. It is moreover many a year since he climbed the water 
tower and painted thereon the first class numerals to decorate 
that landmark. Now his exercise is confined to climbing around 
the Newark factory of the Central Stamping Company, where 
he bosses an army of 900 men. During his six years' service 
in the 23d Regiment of the New York National Guard he saw 
service on strike duty in Buffalo and Brooklyn. But here is 
his autobiography : 

" Newark, N. J., December 20, 1906. 
" Dear Mike : 

" The Committee's requirement that we write only the ' news 
that's fit to print,' may shorten materially some of the letters 
that are sent you. I don't say that this applies to my case. 
Since leaving Princeton, I've been busy most of the time hus- 
tling for a living. Worked with a big electrical concern for five 
years, took the experience I had picked up into street railroad- 
ing, first in Washington and then in England, where I was in 
charge of the Wolverhampton car barns a year, until the 
property was turned over to the city. Then got into the manu- 
facture of cooking utensils as clerk, assistant superintendent, 









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and now as superintendent over nine hundred men. For some 
years things didn't seem to come my way, but then the tide 
turned some four years ago, mostly by my sticking to what 
looked like a poor job. Then I married and have my own 
home. Happy and contented. 

" I even expect soon to answer some of your duns with real 
money instead of promises. Quit acquiring thermometers by 
unauthorized methods soon after I left college. This is not 
evidence of reform — I had secured enough [meaning ther- 
mometers. — Eds.] to last the rest of this life, and couldn't find 
any high-temperature ones. 

" Really, Mike, I haven't done anything worth writing about, 
except picking my wife, and I couldn't equal that performance 
again. " Sincerely yours, 

" Waleie Airman." 

3 

ALONZO A. ALTER r 

Journalist. Office, Pittsburg Press, Pittsburg, Pa. Address, Par- 
nassus, Pa. Unmarried. 

A LTER was very hard to find ; but the Committee got him at 
j^Jl last; and his letter is so frank and honest that we felt 
amply repaid for our long chase. 

" Pittsburg, Pa., January 25, 1907. 
" Dear Prentice : 

" If I owe an explanation to anybody, I owe it to our Class 
Committee. The fact is that I am incurably careless and lazy 
about everything except my own work. I could not add very 
much to the short biography I sent you. Since leaving college, 
with the exception of a year's teaching, I have worked at news- 
paper work either as reporter or editor. Most of my work on 
this paper has been as telegraph editor. I was with the Times 



24 PRINCETON NINETY-TWO 

the longest, in different positions. I am not married and there 
is little about my personal life that would interest anyone. 

" I am very proud of the class, especially of the success of 
some of its members. You must not blame me if I felt a little 
bit like an intruder — as not entitled to full membership. Your 
letter, however, puts all doubts about that to rest. What 
hurts me is that you should think I was annoyed or did not 
appreciate my class. That is the reason that I have written 
pretty plainly how I feel about the matter. I feel so bad that, 
as a penance, I may go and get my picture taken. I am not 
quite sure about the outcome of this resolution, however. 

" I wish some one would send me an account of my share of 
class expenses. I will reply as promptly as I do to your letter. 
Part of my difficulty has been that college letters have always 
been sent to my home, and for a good deal of the time, while 
working at night, I stayed in Pittsburg. I am not trying to 
excuse all my carelessness. 

" Very sincerely, 

" A. A. Alter." 

BENJAMIN AMES V 

Manufacturing. Business Address, Mount Vernon, Ohio. Resi- 
dence, Lakehome, Mount Vernon, Ohio. 

Married Isabel Cooper Kirk, Mount Vernon, October 25, 1896. 
Children, Kirk Delano, b. July 22, 1898. Elizabeth Delano, 
b. Feb. 22, 1900. Benjamin II., b. June 22, 1903. Delano, 
b. May 28, 1906. 

BEN says he is a banker, manufacturer and farmer. He is 
secretary and treasurer of the Chillingsworth Foundry 
and Machine Company of Mount Vernon, Ohio ; but does not 
enlighten us as to the banking and farming. 



BIOGRAPHIES 25 

/ 

JAMES PURVIANCE ATKINSON, M.S. 1 

Chemist. Business Address, Department of Health, East l6th 
Street, New York City. Residence, Fox Lane, Flushing, L. I. 

Married Maria Henrietta Normand-Smith, New York City, June 1, 
1899. Children, Maria Elena, b. January 5, 1901. Eliza Pur- 
viance, b. August 23, 1902. 

POP is a chemist. " Chemistry and vacation," he claims as 
his hobbies. The former he labors with in New York, and 
the latter he enjoys at Keene v'alley in the Adirondacks. He 
was an assistant in the Chemical Laboratory at Princeton from 
1892 to 1897, earning his degree as Master of Science in 1896- 
Entering the service of the Health Department of New York 
City in 1897 as assistant chemist, he is now The Chemist of the 
department. Ed. Duffield, Doc Bailey and others who have in 
years past succeeded in tracking Pop through the mysteries of 
the Department Laboratory, say that he spends most of his time 
experimenting with antitoxin on rabbits, guinea pigs and horses. 
At any rate, Pop is an authority in his chosen field, and has 
published important contributions to science, as reference to 
his list in the Hot Air Furnace at the end of this book shows. 
He says he takes no part in politics, always voting the best 
ticket. His military service has been confined to six years' drill 
in the 7th Regiment, N. G. N. Y., and Pop in the padded full- 
dress uniform of the 7th was a glad sight. It is alleged that 
he was wounded once, climbing a barbed wire fence during a 
field-day skirmish. He reports that he has never travelled 
" more than one day's journey from New York City," although 
he belongs to the American Chemical Society, the Society of 
Chemical Industry, the Society of Physiological Chemists, and 
the Society of Experimental Biology and Medicine. He takes 
no exercise, and his only recreation is gardening " when I get 
time." As for a letter to the class, he says : " I am quite at sea. 
One year is very much like the previous and your very com- 



26 PRINCETON NINETY-TWO 

prehensive blank covers everything, it seems to me. However 
I will try to make it as interesting as possible if I write it. 
Otherwise I shall let you make it up." Owing to the fact that 
shortly after making this statement, Pop was stricken with 
appendicitis and has had a very slow recovery from the opera- 
tion then performed on him, the letter has not materialised ; 
hence the editors have " made it up." Pop addressed the 
Chemical Society of Princeton on April 1-i, 1905, on the Milk 
Supply of New York City. 

PAUL CLARK AYLESWORTH 

Lawyer. Address, Council Bluffs, Iowa. 

Married Florence E. Wygant, Dennison, Iowa, June 7, 1897- 
Children, Beulah, b. Oct. 5, 1898. Evelyn, b. Sept. 29, 1900. 

AYLESWORTH has not responded to our efforts ; and 
we can only state that he studied law and for several 
years practiced in Council Bluffs, la. He then went to Seattle, 
Wash. A year ago last autumn he moved to Los Angeles, Cal., 
where he was employed in the interests of Jim Westervelt's 
Columbian Life Insurance Co. He is now in the East. 

FREDERICK RANDOLPH BAILEY, A.M., M.D. 

Physician. Address, 1165 East Jersey Street, Elizabeth N. J. 
Married Minnie Josephine Wooden, Brooklyn, N. Y., December 17, 

1896. Children. Ruth Kendall, b. January 11, 1898. 

Frederick Randolph, Jr., November 8, 1902. 

DOC Bailey entered the College of Physicians and Surgeons, 
Columbia University, immediately after graduation, and 
in 1895 received the degree that at length entitled him to his 
nickname. He has been retained on the staff of the P. & S. 
as a lecturer on Histology, and this work, with the extensive 



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BIOGRAPHIES 27 

practice in Elizabeth which is his, has kept him closely down 
to business. His textbook on histology, published in 1904, went 
into a second edition two years later. We suppose Doc makes 
his classes at the P. & S. buy the book ; and we call the atten- 
tion of Redney Hart, Joe Huston and other reformers to this 
obvious case of graft. Doc says his classes don't dare " egg " 
him when he lectures and they wouldn't cheer under any cir- 
cumstances. We are led to infer therefore that the Doctor is 
suffered. He has travelled in Europe; is a Republican School 
Commissioner at Elizabeth ; and belongs to the Elizabeth Town 
and Country Club, the Elizabeth Y. M. C. A., the Princeton 
Club of N. Y. (juxtaposition here accidental — Eds.), the 
American Association of Pathologists and Bacteriologists, the 
N. Y. Pathological Society, the Alumni Association of the 
P. & S., the N. J. Medical Society, the Union County Medical 
Society, and the Clinical Society of Elizabeth General Hospital. 
The Doctor has not had time to send us a letter fit for publi- 
cation. 

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ARTHUR DENTON BALL 

Residence, 140 Clinton Avenue, Newark, N. J. Married . 



BALL has not responded to our requests for biographical 
data. After graduation he went to Newark, where he 
practiced his profession as civil engineer for a short period. 
Within a year or so he became interested with a number of 
local financial men in the consolidation of some of the Newark 
gas companies, and was very active in that work. He was 
reported to have made a considerable sum of money through 
the success of this consolidation, and in addition became rec- 
ognized as a promoter of financial enterprises. For several 
years he was, we think, in the employ of the consolidated gas 
companies. At the time of the formation of the Public Service 
Corporation the gas companies were purchased by that Cor- 



80 PRIXCETOX XIXETY-TWO 

IMLAY BENET, M.D. 

Physician. Office, 34 Pine Street, New York City. Residence, 

137 West 87th Street, New York City. 
Married Edith Elizabeth Laidlaw, New York City, November 5, 

1896. Children, none. 

IMLAY studied medicine at the Long Island College Hos- 
pital, taking his degree in 1895, and has resided in New 
York ever since, travelling daily for the last ten years from 
Harlem to the Battery. Golf and automobiles are his exercise 
and recreation. He has a large volume of souvenir postal 
cards, postmarked Princeton, sent to him by the " Record " 
Committee. This volume is for sale cheap, or he will exchange 
it for any useful article. He came in out of the wet just before 
the C. 0. D. telegrams began to arrive. 

ROBINSON POTTER DUNN BENNETT, A.M. 

Minister. Residence, 7013 Greene Street, Germantown, Pa. 
Married Lucy Glover Collins, Washington, D. C, November 6, 

1895. Children, Mary Adelia, b. March 19, 1897. Elbert 

Lansing, b. July 1. 1899- 

BOB, of " Benediction " fame, entered the Seminary and was 
duly graduated in 1895, receiving at the same time in 
cursu the degree of A. M. from the University. His first 
charge was at Lyons Farms, N. J., where he remained until 
1900. In that year he was called to the pastorate of the Sum- 
mit Church, Germantown, Pa., where he is still. (N. B., adverb, 
not adjective). Answering our question as to politics — whether 
he has worked for the good of party, or worked the party for 
his good, he says: "I live in Philadelphia — draw your own 
conclusions." We have drawn them; and with deep regret. 
Bob stumped for McKinlev in 1896 and asks us to believe 



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BIOGRAPHIES 31 

that the only reason he was suffered and not egged was because 
eggs were high. He has done a lot of public speaking for 
the Junior C. E. movement, and though he calls himself a 
" sprig of a pastor " is one of the most popular young preach- 
ers in and around Philadelphia. He has published several 
sermons and a tract on the " Eldership," all listed in '92's Hot 
Air Furnace. He belongs to the Union League (Clerical Roll) 
and to the Adelphoi of Philadelphia. His exercise is limited 
to " pulpit-pounding, jaw-motions, and walking," with a little 
fishing and boating thrown in. 

"7013 Greene St., Germantown, Sept. 25, '06. 
" Dear Brethren : — 

" I am sitting in my study looking out upon the green 
grass and the princely dwellings of fair Germantown, and 
wondering what sort of a piece of Homiletics my patient flock 
are going to have dealt out to them next Sabbath by their 
sprig of a Pastor. And amid all the externals of ecclesiasti- 
cism, and the indications of a ministerial office that surround 
me, amid the odor of sanctity, more or less pronounced, that 
steals from the piles of sermons upon the shelf above me, I 
laugh to myself, as I think back over the years and see the 
apparent incongruity between the ' Rev.' gentleman to whom 
the trustful congregation looks up, and the be-tighted, be- 
spangled, be-daubcd, * Pocahontas ' of college days. 

" But it is a gradual evolution. Five years of enlightening 
a most loyal and patient country flock, on the intricacies of the 
Augustinian Theology, and then six more years of an attempt 
to apply that same theology to a suburban congregation of 
Philadelphians. 

" It has been delightful, but often strenuous, yet the finished 
product is no less of a boy, and yet more of a preacher — I 
hope. During these years my life has been made worth while 
through the joys and disciplines of married life. The sweetest 



32 PRIXCETOX XIXETY-TWO 

and best of women, toiling with me, even while fighting ill 
health, is the mother of two dear children, a girl and a boy. 
" The horseplay and the ' stunts ' of college days have kept 
me still verdant and served to open doors to human hearts. 
The routine of a minister's life is uninteresting to the world 
at large. But it is full enough of zest and of dramatic inci- 
dent, both in melodrama and comedy, to rob life of ennui. I 
have been stump speaker, lecturer, travelling secretary, author, 
stage manager, comedian, child's nurse, physician, sexton, ag- 
riculturalist, trained nurse, etc., etc., ad lib; have been a dele- 
gate to General Assembly, Moderator of Presbyteries and 
indulged in other doubtful ecclesiastical prerogatives. My 
Church and its work are rapidly growing, and ere long I shall 
be the senior pastor, in point of time, in Germantown. I own 
neither a steam yacht nor an ' auto ' — ' and yet I was once 
a poor boy." I had no money in the Philadelphia Real Estate 
Trust Co., — nor anywhere else. But I weary you. Best wishes 
to all the Glorious Class. " R. P. D. Bennett." 



MARTIN VOORHEES BERGEN, JR., A.M. 

Lawyer. Office, 1503 Land Title Building. Philadelphia, Pa. 
Residence, 1631 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pa. Unmarried. 

MIKE BERGEN studied law privately and was admitted 
to the New Jersey bar in 1895 as an attorney, and as 
a counsellor in 1898. He resided first in Camden, N. J., but 
since 1901, when he was admitted to the Pennsylvania bar, has 
made his headquarters in Philadelphia. He is a Republican, 
but has done little political work and has held no offices. His 
military service has been confined to watching, as an interested 
spectator, the parades on Broad Street. Squash, tennis, golf, 
and baseball are his recreations. He frequently served on the 
football coaching staff at Princeton, and has been eminently 



BIOGRAPHIES 33 

successful in his education of the De Lancey School football 
teams at Philadelphia. His name is found on the roll of mem- 
bers at the Philadelphia University and Racquet Clubs, the 
Princeton Club of Philadelphia, the Camden County Country 
Club, the Camden Republican Club, and the Nassau Club of 
Princeton. For several years he has been one of the editors 
of The Legal Intelligencer and the Pennsylvania District Re- 
ports. 

" Philadelphia, February 14, 1907. 
" Since our decennial my life has spun on in much the same 
courses as before then. I have worked fairly hard and enjoyed 
life pretty well, am unmarried and have no immediate prospects 
of getting so. I am throwing more and more energy into 
every path of my life from work to play, and although no gold 
mines or wreaths of laurel blossoms have opened to me or 
twined my brow, yet I think I have held my own with my con- 
temporaries, and that my results are not entirely negative. Our 
old college friendships ever become choicer and better to me 
and I continually meet the members of the now old class with 
ever-increasing pleasure, and find that the only change I can 
discover in myself is the steadily growing satisfaction which is 
given me from the fact of being a Princeton man. In other 
words my report of myself is nothing other than of progress. 

" Yours, 

" Martin V. Bergen, Jr." 

JOHN WILLIAM RUFUS BESSON, A.M., LL.B. 

Lawyer. Business Address, 1 Newark Street, Hoboken, N. J. 
Residence, 800 Hudson Street, Hobokerr, N. J. Unmarried. 

LITTLE BESS studied at the New York Law School and 
received his degree in June, 1894, since when he has been 
practising law in Hoboken, as a partner of the firm of Lewis, 
Besson & Stevens. As a Democrat he " also ran " for the 



34 PRINCETON NINETY-TWO 

New Jersey State Assembly in 1902, but was elected in 1903 
and 1904 from Hudson County, making many speeches amid 
" much cheers " and doing his best for the good of the party. 
He travelled in 1895 through Germany, Austria, Switzerland, 
France, and England, and is a member of the Cottage and 
Nassau Clubs, Princeton, the Princeton Club of New York, 
and the German Club of Hoboken. He is an enthusiastic golfer. 
Here is his modest letter to the class : 

" Hoboken, N. J., Oct, 27, 1906. 
" My Dear Secretary : 

" Since graduation I have been practising law in Hoboken, 
N. J., having formed a partnership with Edwin A. S. Lewis, 
'91, and Richard Stevens. Edwin Lewis I am sure most of 
our class will remember. He was my lifelong friend and in 
his death on September 5, 1906, I suffered an immeasurable 
loss. With the exception of two terms in the New Jersey 
Legislature my life has been along the quiet road of a gen- 
eral practitioner of the law, but it has always been sweetly 
flavored with the friendships formed at Princeton. I am look- 
ing forward to our reunion in June, 1907. As ever, 

" J. W. Rufus Besson." 

LEONIDAS HUSTON BESSON, A.M., LL.B. 

In Business. Address, 5 Nassau Street, New York City. Residence, 
800 Hudson Street, Hoboken, N. J. Unmarried. 

BIG BESS also entered the N. Y. Law School and took his 
degree there in June, 1894. In 1895 he travelled on the 
Continent and in 1906 visited Mexico and Canada. For the 
last eleven years he has been connected with the St. Joseph 
Lead Company. He belongs to the Cottage and Nassau Clubs 
of Princeton, the Princeton Club of New York, the Strollers 
Club, and the German Club of Hoboken. 






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FREDERICK GREGORY BETTS, A.M. 

Lawyer and coal business. Address, Clearfield, Pa. 

Married Bessie Bridge, Clearfield, Pa., November 9, 1897- Chil- 
dren, Margaret Catharine, b. March 19, 1899- Frederick 
Gregory, Jr., b. January 15, 1902. William Wilson, b. May 
11, 1903. 

ZWEI BIER is an attorney-at-law and General Manager 
of the Madeira Hill Coal Mining Company. He studied 
at no educational institution after leaving college, save the 
world, and received no degrees, though he has experienced them 
all, he says, from frost to torrid. He has not contributed to 
literature, but has occasionally written letters and notes of a 
promisory character. " I have delivered speeches on political 
and religious subjects and the audiences did as well as could 
be expected. Have been cheered, never egged; but there has 
been intense suffering." Answering question 9 on politics he 
says " I was a candidate for the Pennsylvania House of Rep- 
resentatives in 1896, but since then have worked for the good 
of the party — the Democratic." After one year in the State 
militia and service at one State encampment, Betts procured 
an honorable discharge. Back to Clearfield, for him. 

As for travelling, he confesses he has never visited Missouri, 
but says he has " been from Maine to Florida, have seen Chi- 
cago and Buffalo, have had a glimpse of New York and can 
find my way about Philadelphia." He is lucky. A Free 
Mason, and a director in a good strong safe bank at Clearfield, 
which is a county seat, he is trusted with his own money. The 
only club he belongs to is composed of five members, " my wife, 
three children, and myself. I was elected president, but re- 
signed in favor of my wife. It is hoped the membership will 
grow." Betts says his chief exercise is walking and thinking, 
though he has been known to take a day off to hunt or fish ; 



36 PRINCETON NINKTY-'DVO 

but he is generally too busy to " recreate." Coin collecting is 
his hobby and the collection is not confined to coins of an- 
cient date. Zwei says he sees no '&S men frequently; and as 
the members of the class seem to have been able to keep out of 

tin 1 newspapers he knows no gossip about them. As for the 
$18,000,000 Capitol which Joe Huston designed for the State, 

Zwei philosophically remarks that the Governor says the cor- 
porations paid for it, so it didn't cost him (Zwei) anything. 
He sends no letter; which will be the more regretted if we 
recollect the crreat oration he delivered at our decennial dinner. 



GEORGE WHITEFIELD BETTS, JR., A.M., LL.B. 

Lawyer. Business Address, ill Broadway, New York City. 

Residence, Englewood, N. J, 
Married Mary Howard Hall, Troy. N. Y.. November 28, 1908. 

Children, none. 

COLONEL BETTS studied electrical engineering at Prince- 
ton for a year after graduation, ami then entering the 
New York Law School, took his degree in 1SJ)o. As an active 

lawyer he says he has written ** numerous briefs teeming with le- 
gal learning, many o\' which proved convincing arguments." As 
a member of the Executive Committee of Englewood, N. J., he 

lias taken active interest in New dersey Republican polities, 
lie is an enthusiast ie traveller, having erossed the Atlantic live 
times, four ot' thorn since graduation. Perhaps this is how he 
eomos to be a " Proctor in Admiralty," as we learn he is from 
his letter head. In September, 1902, he was one o\' the three 
American delegates to the International Marine Congress at 
Hamburg, Germany. He has also explored Canada and Brit- 
ish Columbia, climbing some ot' the Canadian Hookies and 
Selkirks. not to mention summer expeditions to the Yellowstone, 

Western Idaho, California, and Colorado, lie belongs to the 



BIOGRAPHIES 37 

University Club, the Lawyers' Club, and the Princeton Club 
of N. Y. City, the Englewood Golf Club, and the Englewood 
Field Club. He says he sees Turk Davis once in a while, 
" usually when the latter is passing on his way to Atlantic City, 
Bar Harbor, Asheville, or some other equally busy place," 
also Shep Homans, Shellabarger, and Clarence McWilliams, 
who " is becoming one of the leading choppers in the surgical 
line," but who has not succeeded as yet, so far as we know, in 
cutting his way permanently into any female heart. The Col- 
onel writes thus genially: 

" New York, October 20, 1906. 
" '92 Memorial Committee, 

" Most Honored Gentlemen: — Although I appear to be on 
your Committee so far as the raising of funds is concerned, I 
am thankful to say that I do not appear to be on it so far 
as the investigation of the past and present of our distinguished 
classmates is concerned, whose records, I fear, would not bear 
too close examination. For instance, when I was in Philadelphia 
this week I was informed that the billion dollar Pennsylvania 
State Capitol, which Joe Huston says he designed all alone, was 
the subject of an official investigation, as well as the solid gold 
cuspidors inserted therein, and that another party claims to 
have given Joe all the ideas for this magnificence. 

" So far as I am concerned, I am surprised that anyone should 
want to know anything about what I have been doing since 
graduation, for I had supposed that all my acts and accomplish- 
ments were well known from Maine to California, not to say 
South Africa, where Whiskers Woods is supposed to be teach- 
ing the Hottentots how to sing ' Old Nassau.' 

" After graduating in '92 I spent a year under the tutelage 
of Prof. Brackett in Princeton ; then went to the New York 
Law School, where I learned all the law in two years. I then 
went into the office of Convers & Kirlin of New York, in the 



38 PRINCETON NINETY-TWO 

capacity of office boy and managing partner, and after getting 
things there running smoothly in five years, I decided to form 
a triple league, and accordingly took as partners L. J. Hunt 
of Harvard and C. B. Hill of Yale, making a Princeton, Yale, 
Harvard combination, so as to let no one escape. We have 
our office on the 20th floor of the Trinity Building, overlooking 
Trinity Church and the New York Harbor, so as to get the 
proper inspirations. 

" Mrs. Betts and I live out in Englewood, N. J., where our 
door is always opened to any '92 man who will give us the 
pleasure of a visit. 

" Yours fraternally, 
" George Whitefield Betts, Jr." 



WILLIAM EDWARD BIEDERWOLF, A.M. 



Evangelist. Business Address, 195 State Street, Chicago, 111. 

Residence, Monticello, Ind. 
Married Ida Belle Casard, April 16, 1899- Children, none. 

BID took the seminary course, and then studied two years 
at Erlangen and Berlin. He then went into evangelistic 
work, and has become one of the best known and most successful 
men in the country in that sphere. His earnestness is his chief 
characteristic, and indeed, is the key to his success. As chap- 
lain of the 161st Regiment of Indiana Volunteer Infantry he 
" fought, bled, and died " in Cuba during the Spanish War. 
He has written the history of the regiment. (See the Hot Air 
Furnace.) He travelled in Europe in 1897, and in 1898 
visited the Holy Land and Egypt. He is a socialist. He still 
exercises on the horizontal bar ; golf, horseback riding, and 
fishing are his recreations, New Testament Greek his hobby ; 
and he has a private secretary. Here is Bid's letter: 



BIOGRAPHIES 39 

" Monticello, Ind., October 4, 1906. 
" My Dear Prentice : 

" I wish I knew what to say in response to your request 
that I say something about myself worth hearing. I can- 
not say that I have become great, for two reasons: First, 
because there are some things it is always best to let other 
people say ; and second, because Princeton theology will 
not stand for a man telling a lie. I met a fellow the other day 
who said he could not sleep with a newspaper in his room 
because the reports kept him awake. I have suffered some little 
from insomnia myself but not for a cause like that; the chief 
reason being the sweet dreams of those dear old days back at 
Princeton when I broke down a vigorous constitution trying 
to set a good example for the rest of you fellows. 

" I have been preaching hard and straight ever since I've been 
at it. One of the papers said this morning, ' If ever a minister 
called a spade a spade, Mr. Biederwolf did so last night.' You 
know more about what he means by a spade than I do, but I 
took it for granted that he meant I talked straight. If any 
of the fellows have ever spent any time in a lunatic asylum 
(as a visitor) they doubtless noticed that every one of the 
inmates had a hobby. I have mine. It is to hit sin as hard as 
I can and get men to keep clean. 

" Yours for the best, 

" W. E. Biederwolf." 



HARRY ELMER BIERLY 

Educator. Address, Chattanooga, Tenn. Unmarried. 

BIERLY says he is " single, of course." But the inference 
that he is a woman-hater is not justified. He is too busy to 
get married. He is up to his neck in educational work in the 
South; for besides being Professor of Philosophy at Grant 



40 PRINCETON NINETY-TWO 

University, and Lecturer on Neurology and Psychiatry at Chat- 
tanooga Medical College, he is editor and publisher of the 
Southern Educational Review, Managing Editor of the South- 
ern Education Series, and Director of Child Study Department 

of the Southern Education Association — and it would be a 
mighty strong woman who could heat that combination of inter- 
ests. Bierly has studied at Harvard, Chicago, Boston, and 
Clark Universities, and was Fellow-eleet of Psychology at 
Clark, lie has been successively Professor of Science in Belle- 
vue College. Wyo., Superintendent of Schools in Pennsylvania, 
Professor of Philosophy in Virginia College, and Professor of 
Biology in Florida State College, so that his travels through 
this country have been varied and wide. The only '9°. fellows 
he sees " are those who have successfully pulled the wires in 
getting back to old Princeton ami are now the wells of knowl- 
edge for the reform as professed by President Wilson, verifying 
the statement made by President Patton one day in Ethics that 
the elass of *92 was either the brightest or dullest class he had 
ever seen." The editors of this Record are three of the M wells " 
alluded to. Bierly has published a number of articles and ad- 
dresses on educational subjects, a monograph on the Develop- 
ment of the Conception of God, and a pamphlet on the 
Comparative Development of the Child. (See the Hot Air 
Furnace.) Politically he is a Democrat. 




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CASSIUS EDWIN BIXLER, A.M. 

Missionary. Address, Estancia, Sergipe, Brazil. Residence (until 
July, 1907), 134 West Commerce Street, Bridgeton, N. J. 

Married Florence Beatty Elwell, Bridgeton, N. J., July 19, 1899- 
Children, Atilia Fithian, b. May 21, 1900. Helen Hench, 
b. May 20, 1902. Paul Edwin, b. October 8, 1903. Henry 
Elwell, b. April 7, 1005. 

AFTER a year at Chicago and two in the Princeton Theo- 
logical Seminary, Bixler was graduated from the latter 
institution in 1895, obtaining his A.M. degree from the Uni- 
versity at the same time. Then spending a year at Armstrong, 
Iowa, he went to Brazil as a missionary, laboring six years at 
Larangeiras, Sergipe, and for three and a half at Estancia. 
From September, 1899, until August, 1906, he did not see a 
classmate, which is in a way a record. As a busy missionary he 
has no time for recreation, his exercise being horse- or mule- 
back riding into the interior. He was the director of an 
" Eschola Americana " at Larangeiras, " internato e externato 
para ambos os sexos " offering a " Curso Primario," a " Curso 
Intermediario " and a " Curso Secundario " — three strikes and 
out. Here is his letter. 

" 134 Commerce St., Bridgeton, N. J., Dec. 7, 1906. 
" Dear Mr. Secretary : 

" My doings since leaving Old Nassau can be told in a 
very few words. The first three years were spent in the 
Theological Seminary, — '92-'93 in the Chicago Theological, 
and '93-'95 in Princeton. After leaving Princeton in '95, 
I went to Iowa, where I served as pastor of the Presby- 
terian Church of Armstrong for one year, from July, 1895 
to July, 1896. During that year I was appointed by the 
Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions for service in Brazil, 



42 PRINCETON NINETY-TWO 

S. A., whither I sailed in October, 1896. I left New York 
October 20th, reaching Bahia November 6th, and Larangeiras, 
in the State of Sergipe, November 19th. Here I remained in 
all about six years. During this time, however, in 1899, I re- 
turned to the States for my bride. I was married to Miss 
Florence Beatty Elwell of Bridgeton, N. J., July 19, 1899, 
Havens, '92, acting as best man and W. L. Mudge, '92, as 
one of the ushers. Returning to Brazil in October of that 
year, I remained three years more in Larangeiras. In October, 
1902, I moved with my family to the city of Estancia, in 
the same State, where we labored for three and a half years 
until our return to the States in June last. 

" Estancia is a city of about 10,000 inhabitants situated 
about fifteen miles inland on the River Piauhy at the head of tide 
water. It is built on high ground and is very healthful. I 
spend about half my time in Estancia, where we were the pioneers 
in regular missionary work, and though a most fanatical Ro- 
man Catholic city, we have to-day an organized church. The 
other six months of each year I spend in evangelistic work, 
preaching in nearly all the towns in my district. In a few I 
have been unable up to the present to secure house, hall, or 
hovel, in winch to hold a service. In such places at the start, 
work has to be individual, conversational, in stores, on the street, 
or in private houses, as I may be able to secure a hearing. 

" If any member of the glorious class should desire a little 
outing trip for his health, I should be only too glad to take 
him over my parish, muleback, a short ride of about 600 miles, 
introducing him to Brazilian hospitality, which is generous, and 
Brazilian fare, which consists regularly of meat and farinha, 
and, less frequently, beans and rice. 

" An evangelistic trip over my whole field occupies about ten 
weeks' time. We have groups of believers in various places 
and many interested persons not yet members of the church. 
I cover my whole field about twice a year and the more important 



BIOGRAPHIES 43 

places I visit three or four times. My audiences vary any- 
where from half a dozen to 250. 

" The old saying, ' Variety is the spice of life,' is untrue, even 
in missionary work. This variety is served up to us sometimes 
in hootings, sometimes in stonings, frequently in such pet terms 
as Devil, Satan, Antichrist, pe do boi (cloven-footed, literally, 
oxfooted), etc., and occasionally in armed mobs, organized and 
led by a priest or some fanatical emissary of his. 

" We reached the United States on our furlough, July 3d, 
and expect to sail again for our field of labor in Estancia, 
Sergipe, Brazil, about July 5th, 1907. 

" Yours in the bonds of '92, 

" C. E. Bixler." 



LOUIS G. BORGMEYER, M.D, 

WE do not know where Borgmeyer is. He was connected 
with the Eye and Ear Hospital at Newark, and his 
permanent address used to be Rahway, N. J. We have not 
succeeded in finding him. 



WILLIAM LITTLE BRADLEY, A.M., M.D. 

Physician. Office and residence, 55 West 75th Street, New York 
City. Unmarried. 

BRADLEY got his medical training at Columbia (P. & S.), 
receiving his degree in 1895, and has made a specialty of 
gynecology, in which subject he was Assistant Instructor at 
Columbia for five years. He is now Attending Gynecologist to 
Vanderbilt Clinic and General Memorial Hospital, and is also 
Physician and Surgeon to St. Joseph's Orphan Asylum in New 
York City. Walking and golf are his exercise, and dancing and 
the theatre his chief recreations. He belongs to the Princeton 



44 PRINi ETON NINETY-TWO 

and Knickerbocker Clubs, the N. Y. State and County Medical 
Societies, the Riverside Practitioners' Society and the Physi- 
cians' Mutual Aid Association. Naturally his hobby is 
medicine — especially from the gynecological and obstetrical 
standpoints. He is a good deal of a philosopher, as his letter 
plainly shows : 

" Yv\ i mv Cl assmavfs : 

" Having decided during my Senior year at Princeton to 

follow Medicine and Surgery as a means ot' livelihood. 
I began to make preparations for same immediately after 
graduation. Faltering the College ot' Physicians and Sur- 
geons in October, 189%, 1 took up the many duties — both 
pleasant and onerous — required of all men studying there, and 
was graduated in dune. 1895. I then served as a regular interne 
in two ot' the largest New York hospitals, securing a diploma 
in each institution. Life here, from both practical and theoret- 
ical standpoints, was decidedly different from that experienced 
in the outer world. Although wearisome at times, it was most 
interesting in every way. The day I left my last hospital 
seemed to be the most dreary and lonesome in my whole life. 
The absolute seriousness ot' life and its many vexatious prob- 
lems were then fully realized. Being rather fatigued. I took 
a short vacation, preparatory to finding a location for start- 
ing in the practice ot' professional work. 

•' Finally decided to settle here in West 75th Street, in Oc- 
tober, 1897, a place that I have ever since found to be most pleas- 
ant in every respect. There are many. I'huiji ^uc<<c> coming to 
all who think it a sinecure to rapidly gain a lucrative income 
from professional work in a large city like New York. The 
necessary large expense of living is the chief factor in its pre- 
vention. One's path is certainly not thickly strewn with rose- at 
any time. Patience and perseverance have to occupy very promi- 
nent places in the ladder of virtues. Disappointments are many 



BIOGRAPHIES 45 

at quite frequent intervals. There are still quite a number of 
visible rays of sunshine and hope that help to cheer you on 
your so-called weary road. Personally I can't say that I have 
great reason to complain. The benefits derived from hard 
work have ever been in evidence. 

" Never having thus far entered the matrimonial field, I sup- 
pose that I am missing very much that goes to make life worth 
living. I trust that such will not always be the case, as I 
well recognize the advantages to be obtained by such a pro- 
cedure. No sane man can truthfully deny that a happy mar- 
riage is the grandest thing on earth. Life is to me more and 
more complex as the years pass by. It is this complexity, how- 
ever, that makes it decidedly interesting. The meeting and 
studying of people of all classes and conditions is the source 
of the greatest pleasure and profit. Life is indeed a highly 
interesting problem in all of its aspects. No person can do 
better than follow the good old Golden Rule. In conclusion, 
let me say that I am sure I would not be as happy and contented 
as at present had my lot been cast in other places than those of 
dear old Princeton. 

" Very sincerely, 

" William L. Bradley. 
" 55 West 75th Street, New York City." 



JOHN MENIFEE BRENNAN, A.M., LL.B. 

Lawyer. Business Address, 2 Bank Row, Paris, Ky. Residence, 

509 Pleasant Street, Paris, Ky. 
Married Fannie May Hamilton, Mt. Sterling, Ky., February 6, 

1907. Children, none. 

HORSES studied at the N. Y. Law School, obtaining 
therefrom the degree of LL. B., and from Princeton 
the degree of A. M. Although a prominent lawyer in the great 



46 PRINCETON NINETY-TWO 

metropolis of Paris (Ky.), he has never held office nor been a 
candidate; but he has managed several campaigns and presided 
over county and congressional district conventions of the Re- 
publican party. He has travelled through the Northwest and 
Canada, and spent two years in Europe, part of the time com- 
paring Paris with Paris. He is a Mason, an Elk, and a member 
of the Jolly Fellows. Like a true Kentuckian, his recreation is 
horseback riding, and his hobby the fair sex — but he laments 
that although he lives on Pleasant Street and his latch string 
is always out it is never pulled by a '92 man. The diversity of 
his interests is clearly revealed in his letter. Anyone would 
feel at home with such a well-rounded host — even if he does date 
his letter four years back. 

" Paris, Kentucky, Oct. 10, 1902. 
" Dear Mike : 

" Am glad to hear you are engaged to be married. I 
know she is a lucky girl. I was engaged once myself but 
it didn't take. I am still trying, and hope some day to win 
a wife. When I hear of the different members of '92 who have 
married I wonder why it is that I can't. I have nothing exciting 
about myself to write. I am an officer in the church and own 
race horses, am a director in a fair association, and in a bank, 
so you see my electives are not specialized, and are not all snaps. 
Am trying to buy a farm and have an old-fashioned Kentucky 
home, where any of the old class will always find a cordial wel- 
come and a welcome cordial. 

" Yours, 

" John M. Brennan." 

[Since the above was written the farm has been bought and 
its owner is now head over heels in debt, of course ; but the latch- 
string is still out and the old house is being fitted up for the 



BIOGRAPHIES 47 

entertainment of any '92 man who drops into old Kentucky. 
—Eds.] 

\hater still. Evidently John's plight was not so hopeless as 
his letter would indicate, for just as this volume goes to press 
there arrives the announcement of his marriage. Another 
happy Kentucky Colonel! — Eds.] 



JAMES CHESTER BREWSTER, A.M 

Coke and coal business. Business Address, 230 Avenue C, New 
York City. Residence, 53 New England Avenue, Summit, 
N. J. Unmarried. 

IN spite of the hard winter the Green Grass is still growing. 
He is single, and discreetly silent as to his hopes or other- 
wise. His letter is a modest record of good hard work without 
much play. For his vacation Jimmy goes to Maine and New 
Hampshire. Here is what he says: 

" 230 Avenue C, New York, Oct. 17, 1906. 
" My Dear Kelly : 

" I must beg your pardon for delay in writing, but when 
your circular came I laid it aside to consider what I had done 
worth recording. But with all my efforts I cannot find any- 
thing. Since leaving college I have been living quietly in the 
suburban city of Summit, N. J. 

" The first year after leaving college I taught in a private 
school in that town, but the next year got a job with the Con- 
solidated Gas Co. of N. Y. With this company I held various 
positions until I was appointed Manager of the National Coke 
& Coal Co., which is an offshoot of the Consolidated. Here I 
have been located for several years past, in this rather out-of- 
the-way corner of the city, ' far from the madding crowd.' 
I find the job on the whole a pleasant one, though when my 



48 PRINCETON NINETY-TWO 

Irishmen get drunk or go on strike it is not entirely a cinch. 
I haven't got married nor grown rich nor famous, but have had 
uniform good health, and, take it altogether, have enjoyed life 
pretty well. Of course I have had to keep close to New York, 
and so have been unable to travel except so much as I could do 
in week-end trips, or in my annual vacation of two weeks or so. 
However, I think I have utilized these opportunities pretty 
well, and seen a good deal of the Northeastern part of the 
country. 

" Although there are a good many good Princetonians in 
Summit, I regret there are so few chances to meet '92 men. But 
I hope that next June there will be a good lot of us back in 
Princeton to march to the game and to sing ' Old Nassau.' 

" So here's to all the old friends. 
" Sincerely, 

" James C. Brewster." 



ERIC G. BROTHERLIN 

WE have not been able to locate Brotherlin. His address 
used to be 1514 Park Building, Pittsburg, Pa. There 
is an impression among some of the class that he is dead ; but 
as this lacks verification we leave him here hoping that he may 
yet turn up. 

ARTHUR G. BROWN 

Chemist. Business Address, Roosevelt, N. J. Residence, Wood- 
bridge, N. J. Unmarried. 

FARMER BROWN tells us very little about himself, but 
from his answers we secure the following: he is a Repub- 
lican ; he is the chemist for the U. S. Metal Refining Company, 
where he has been three years ; previous to that he was three 
months with the American Smelting and Refining Company, 




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into whose employ he had gone from Ledoux & Co., N. Y. 
City. He belongs to the Woodbridge Athletic Club, the Wood- 
bridge Bowling Club and the Woodbridge Rifle and Gun Club. 
Swimming, skating, hunting, tennis, bowling, billiards, pool, 
etc., are all included in his exercise and recreation answer. He 
is also one of the most regular attendants at the '92 Dutch 
Company Meetings, thereby setting many of us a good example. 



WILLIAM S. BROWN , 

WE know nothing about Senior Brown. His address used 
to be 62 White Street, N. Y. City. But we have not 
found him there — nor anywhere else. 



GEORGE WILLIAM BURLEIGH 

" Sixty per cent. Business; forty per cent Law." Business Address, 
52 Wall Street, New York City. Residence, 42 West 9th 
Street, New York City. 

Married Isis Yturbide Potter Stockton, Trenton, N. J., November 
21, 1894. Children, none. 

THE DUKE studied law at the N. Y. Law School, and was 
admitted to the bar three months before his class 
graduated ; hence, not completing his course, he did not receive 
his degree. He has taken active part in New York municipal 
politics, as a member of the Committee of Organization of the 
Citizens' Union, delivering several speeches in the mayoralty 
campaigns of Low and McClellan. He has held no office, but 
has worked persistently for the good of the city. In national 
politics he is a Republican. He claims to be forty per cent, a 
lawyer and sixty per cent, a business man, and has filled the 
following positions of trust, honor, and love : Secretary of the 
Princeton Club of New York and member of its council ; direc- 



50 PRINCETON NINETY-TWO 

tor, secretary, and treasurer of the Harvey Steel Company, the 
Lackawanna Iron and Coal Company, the Princeton Publishing 
Company, and the Willner Wood Company, being also president 
of the last ; director of the Mitchell Mining Company ; treasurer 
of the Cottage Club at Princeton ; chairman of the Finance 
Committee of the West Side Branch Y. M. C. A. of New York ; 
first secretary of the Committee of Fifty of Princeton Univer- 
sity, resigning this arduous position to Big Murray, '93. He 
belongs to the Cottage and Nassau Clubs of Princeton, the 
Downtown Association and Princeton Club of N. Y. City, the 
University Club of Washington, D. C, the West Side Branch 
of the New York Y. M. C. A., the New York Zoological So- 
ciety, the American Museum of Natural History, the Camp Fire 
Club, the Canadian Camp Club and Preserve, and last but not 
least, the '92 Dutch Company, of which he has long been presi- 
dent. Summing up, the Duke's activities run along three lines 
— political reform, Princeton's development, and business. His 
hobbies are fishing and hunting, and nature study afield and in 
the New York Zoological Park and the Museum of Natural 
History. But so busy a man as he is — and there has not been 
a more prominently active Princetonian in New York these last 
ten years than he — does not have much time for recreation ; the 
only exercise he admits is walking to his office and setting-up 
exercises at home if he cannot chase the elusive golf ball, or 
hook the wily trout, or handle the tiller of a yacht, and these 
things he seldom gets a chance to do. The Duke has not sent 
us a letter. 



BIOGRAPHIES 51 



ARTHUR W. BUTLER, C.E. 

Banker and Broker. Office, 85 Wall Street, New York City. 

Residence, 30 East 39th Street, New York City. 
Married Elizabeth Marshall Hoffman, New York City, October 29, 

1903. Children, none. 

THE author of the following letter is the " Bro." in the 
firm of Geo. P. Butler & Bro., of Wall Street. Among 
the numerous clubs and societies to which he belongs is the 
New York Zoological Society, which he explains by saying that 
farming is his pet hobby and the exercises and recreations he 
most enjoys are those " incident to country life." He began 
the New Year by writing this : 

" Your last call for my autobiography reminds me that I 
have been more or less delinquent in the matter, and therefore 
craving your forgiveness, I will now attempt to write a brief 
account of what you are pleased to style my mis-spent life. 
To go back to the beginning: One week after my graduation 
from the Alma Mater I followed famous advice and went 
West to seek my fortune. Not willing to do things by halves, 
I did not stop until I got as far West as I possibly could — 
Northwestern Washington. In that remote region I followed 
the profession for which I had been training all through those 
four long years of college, namely, that of a C. E. The awful 
life I led in that far away country, my exciting adventures and 
my hairbreadth escapes, might well fill a book, but it is not for 
me to dwell here upon those early events. Although I remained 
West fully half a year, I did not find that fortune I went in 
quest of. I thereupon returned East, renounced the calling of 
a civil engineer and began business life on the bottom-most rung 
of the ladder, first in an insurance company, and afterwards 
for five years in the Central Trust Co. In July, 1898, I be- 



52 PRINCETON NINETY-TWO 

came a member of the New York Stock Exchange, forming 
with my brother, the firm of Geo. P. Butler & Bro., and have ever 
since conducted with him and other partners a general banking 
and brokerage business. I remained a bachelor all too long, for 
not until 1903 did the best event of my life occur — my marriage 
to Miss Elizabeth Marshall Hoffman of this city. We live 
during the winter in New York, and the balance of the year at 
Mt. Kisco, where we own a country place and attempt farming 
in a moderate way. I see entirely too little of my classmates, 
and am looking forward with pleasure to the coming reunion." 



COURTLANDT PATTERSON BUTLER, A.M. 

Minister. Residence, 313 Third Street, Lakewood, N. J. 
Married Maud Valentine, Hackettstown, N. J., November 24, 1897- 
Children, none. 

AFTER going through the Seminary and taking his A. M. 
at the University, Butts became in January, 1896, the 
pastor of the Calvary Presbyterian Church of Riverton, N. J., 
where he remained until July, 1900. From October, 1900, to 
date he has been pastor of the First Presbyterian Church at 
Lakewood. In politics he is " mostly a Republican, but they 
have never given me anything." The only active part he has 
taken in politics, save to vote, was to open a session of the New 
Jersey Legislature with prayer on one occasion. Ed. Duffield 
and Little Bess were members at the time, hence Butts' concern 
for the Legislature. The only military service he has seen is 
that of " the church militant." No writings of his will be 
found in the Hot Air Furnace, but he has made more speeches, 
he says, than it would take to fill many books ; and yet he holds 
his job. In 1896 he travelled in Great Britain and Ireland 
and in France and Switzerland. Occasionally he may be seen 
peacefully riding his wheel around Lakewood, and once in a 



BIOGRAPHIES 53 

while he rolls tenpins. His hobbies are " stars and locomo- 
tives " ; and annually he sees the Hon. Edward D. Duffield — 
" is not that enough? " 

Butts is another who saved ink and paper by not sending a 
letter for this record. 

HOWARD CROSBY BUTLER, A.M. 

Teacher. Address, Merwick, Princeton, N. J. Unmarried. 

HOWARD studied at the School of Architecture, Colum- 
bia University, during 1894-95, and at the American 
School of Classical Studies at Rome in 1896-97, after which, 
until 1905, he was Lecturer on Architecture at Princeton — 
that is, as often as he was in Princeton. For he was in Europe 
in 1892, 1893, 1895, 1897, 1898, 1899, 1900, 1902, 1903, 
1905, and 1906, in Asia Minor in 1899-1900, and again in 
1904-1905, while in 1897, 1898, and 1900 he visited Africa. 
In 1905 he was made Professor of Art and Archaeology at 
Princeton. His hobby, as may be suspected, is Ancient Archi- 
tecture, and if you want to know what exercise and recreation 
he takes ask of the horse that far and near with dust-clouds 
strews the air, with Merwick, Princeton, as a starting point. 
Every afternoon the Master of Merwick sallies forth for a ride, 
and takes no other exercise. He has lectured on architectural 
subjects before the Boston Architects' Association, and numer- 
ous schools and clubs. And he has also lectured, like Prentice, 
on the Princeton Syrian Expedition results before the allied 
sections of the Archaeological Institute of America, and before 
various clubs and schools. These lectures are illustrated by 
lantern slides. Terms on application. 

Howard belongs to the University, Players and Princeton 
Clubs of New York, to the Nassau Club and Tiger Inn of 
Princeton, and to the American Institute of Archaeology. He 
writes : 



54 PRINCETON NINETY-TWO 

" It must be easier for those members of the Class who are 
really in the wide, wide world to write their own histories, 
than for those of us who have remained in the crew of the old 
ship, Princeton. The life of the man of affairs must be of 
more general interest than that of the teacher in a University. 
Yet residence in Princeton is far more exciting now than it 
was in the undergraduate days, for the faculty as well as for 
everyone else. With important changes being made on the 
policy of the university and in the system of teaching, with 
constant additions to the faculty, with interesting people com- 
ing here every year to live, our life is not the sleepy humdrum 
existence that we imagined the professorial life to be fifteen 
years ago. 

" The instructions to the Class were that these letters should 
be personal biographies. I have filled out the blank for sta- 
tistics so far as I was able, never having been a soldier or a 
politician. I had to confess to being single, and without 
immediate hopes. My life since graduation has been chiefly 
given to study, teaching, and travelling. A year in Princeton 
as a fellow, a year in Columbia School of Architecture, one in 
The American School at Rome, and one in Athens were devoted 
to study, with a little teaching sandwiched in between. I 
chose a profession, and a branch of that profession that would 
give ample excuse for travel ; and practically all of my time 
these fifteen years, that I have not spent in Princeton, I have 
spent in knocking about the Old World. After I had travelled 
for several years, I took to exploration, and was so fortunate 
as to find friends who wanted exploring done for them. I 
was sent, with Mike Prentice, Robert Garrett, '97, and Dr. 
Enno Littmann, who later became an honorary member of '92 
on an American Archaeological expedition to Central Syria. 
There we cast about up and down the partly explored and the 
unexplored and deserted country that lies between the moun- 
tains of Lebanon and the River Euphrates. Living in tents 



■ 



C. P. Butler 









D. Campbell 



A. M. Candee 






■-.I' 






BIOGRAPHIES 55 

and on horseback, always on the move, and always in the 
open air, we found much that was tremendously interesting 
to us, and much that is important for the study of history, 
archaeology, and ancient languages and civilizations: for the 
land that is now deserted was a populous, rich, thriving, and 
highly civilized country 1500 years ago, and the mere fact 
that the region has been deserted for over 1000 years makes 
it all the more easy to study, for the reason that things have 
remained practically as they were left, but for the action of 
earthquakes. 

" Four years after our return to Princeton, and after the 
publication of the results of our expedition was about com- 
plete, some of our Princeton friends thought it would be a 
good plan to have a Princeton Expedition to Syria. Two 
members of the former party, Dr. Littmann and myself, with 
Fred. Norris, '95, who went to fill Garrett's place as surveyor, 
started out on a second journey to Syria in the autumn of 
1904 ; in the spring Prentice joined us at Damascus. 

" Some of our doings and experiences having been recited 
in the Alumni Weekly, I shall not weary you with a repetition 
of them here, and shall only say that the preparation of our 
Princeton publications is still in progress, and that a part of 
our collection of casts and our little collection of antiquities 
have been placed on exhibition in the Art Museum on the 
Campus, where all members of the Class will be very welcome 
when they come to Princeton, and where they can count on me 
for a personally conducted view of the show. This was an 
exploring, rather than an excavating or collecting, expedition, 
the study of the ancient arts of Syria and of the ancient in- 
scriptions, the collecting of data that can be published in books 
being our chief aims ; still, the glassware and pottery, the 
bronze ornaments and objects of daily use, the trinkets in 
silver and gold that we brought home, are not without interest 
as throwing sidelights on the life and history of the people 



56 PRINCETON NINETY-TWO 

that once made Syria rich and great. I have dwelt upon this 
subject a little longer, perhaps, than I should have done in 
this letter, if the personnel of the two expeditions had not 
been more than half made up of '92 men, two regular and one 
honorary member created at our decennial, and I want the 
Class to know about it. 

" Outside of the group of six or eight '92 men residing in 
Princeton, I see comparatively few classmates. It is a source 
of regret to those of us who live here that so few members 
of our Class return to the old sod, except at the time of big 
games, when it is impossible to see the fellows for more than 
a moment, as they rush to and from trains. This is, of course, 
due to a variety of causes, not the least of which, doubtless, 
is matrimony, and the necessity of providing for future Prince- 
tonians. Nevertheless, as the fortunes of our members grow, 
when it is no longer necessary to walk the floor with sub- 
freshmen, and when the lady of the house begins to feel that 
her bald and portly spouse is safe away from home, I trust 
that we who live in Princeton shall see more of our classmates, 
and more frequently. The latch-string of my rooms at the 
Graduate School is always out for '92 men, and a warm wel- 
come, with bed and board, is hereby offered to you all, if you 
come a few at a time. Bring your sons, and let them have a 
foretaste of the joys of Princeton undergraduate days. Hurry 
up and get your boys in college, while Covey, YVilkie. Farr, 
Mike Prentice. Critch, Pop Vreeland, and I are here to guide 
their ways, and before we are too old to remember that we were 
once sophomores. 

" Yours forever, 

" Howard Crosby Butler." 



BIOGRAPHIES 57 

DUNCAN CAMPBELL. M.D. 

Physician. Address, 130 South Broad Street, Woodbury, N. J. 
Unmarried. 

DUNC studied medicine at the Hahnemann Medical College, 
Philadelphia, and received his M. D. in 1895. He 
lectures once a week at the college on Medical Terminology and 
Prescription Writing. He has kept clear of politics and mili- 
tary service and marriage ; he is " simply single, thank God ! " 
Another case that needs investigation. With the exception of 
trips to California in 1900 and 1903, and Jamaica in 1905, he 
has lived the busy life of a practitioner of medicine, and has 
resided in Woodbury eleven years. His hobby is automobiling, 
and golf is his pastime. He sees very few of his classmates 
and was doubly glad to welcome to Woodbury a few months ago 
ex-Assistant Attorney-General Duffield, who was there on busi- 
ness and needed expert help. Dune says he steered him to the 
Court House and " tried to put him wise." The ex-Assistant 
Attorney-General has not reported on this incident. 

Dune's apology for not forwarding a photo is that he is out 
of them just now — he has to give one to every baby he brings 
into the world, and the supply is exhausted temporarily. No 
letter. Paper and ink are luxuries in Woodbury. 

ALEXANDER MITCHELL CANDEE 

Iron business. Address, Care Worden- Allen Co., Milwaukee, Wis. 

Residence, 206 Knapp Street, Milwaukee, Wis. 
Married Mary R. Taylor, September 24, 1897. Children, Elizabeth 

Cecilia, b. September 26, 1898. Kenneth, b. October 6, 1899. 

CANDEE has resided in Cincinnati, Detroit, Indianapolis, 
Alabama and Denver. Until the summer of 1893 he was 
with the Radford Pipe and Foundry Company at Anniston, 
Ala., then he moved up to the headquarters of the company at 



58 PRINCETON NINETY-TWO 

Radford, Va. A few years later we heard of him at Detroit, as 
connected with the Detroit branch of the New York Life Insur- 
ance Company. Then in 1900 he became cashier of the Denver 
branch. A couple of years later he was in the advertising 
business at Denver, and when we found the trail again, was 
editing a new catalogue for the Mine and Smelter Supply 
Company. Since then, 1902, his son has been very ill and it 
was deemed wise to leave Denver. And so it comes that Candee 
is now at Milwaukee in the structural iron business, and he says 
he expects to live up to his name, and stick there. 

ALFRED BANGS CARHART, E.E., LL.B. 

Lawyer. Business Address, 97 Oliver Street, Boston, Mass. 

Residence, 22 Parker Street, Maiden, Mass. 
Married Mabel R. Millett, Maiden, Mass., December 2, 1903. 

Children, Laurence Millett, b. August 7, 1906. 

CARHART was a lawyer in patent litigation when these 
lines were being written. He received the degree of Elec- 
trical Engineer at Princeton in 1893, and the degree of LL.B. 
from the New York Law School in 1895. Until May, 1906, 
ne had offices in New York and lived in Brooklyn, being general 
counsel and director, with supervision of the manufacturing 
plant, of the Carolina Mineral Company until 1901. From 
1902 to 1906 he occupied the same position for the Bates 
Machine Company of New York. He is now connected with 
the Crosby Steam Gage and Valve Company of Boston, and in 
May, 1906, he moved to the Hub, where according to him, 
" dough congeals in larger chunks " — an opinion changed 
since these words were written. He is a member of the Society 
of Colonial Wars, the American Society of Mechanical 
Engineers, and when in Brooklyn was a member of the Mon- 
tauk and Crescent Athletic Clubs. He has as his hobbv the 



BIOGRAPHIES 59 

preparation of a growing and diverting collection of newspaper 
clippings relating to successful and unsuccessful bunco and 
confidence swindles, and contributions will be welcomed. None 
devised by '92 has as yet been publicly exposed, so he says, ex- 
cept the great counterfeit two dollar game of 1891. Like 
Zwei Bier Betts, his exercise is confined to thinking — " chiefly 
in the open air, in great moderation, carefully avoiding ex- 
haustion." His contributions to literature are not in demand 
for popular reading, being chiefly briefs in patent cases — suc- 
cessful enough in their persuasive purpose on the judicial mind 
apparently, but not fit to appear in the list of the Hot Air 
Furnace. 

Carhart seemed to have some doubts as to whether we con- 
sidered him really a member of the Great and Glorious, be- 
cause he didn't graduate with us, but was seduced by Uncle 
Brackett's Electrical School, and got his degree there in '93. 
It didn't take us long to clear his mind on this point; we don't 
consider him an ex-member, just for that one lapse from virtue. 
See how soon, alas, he has acquired the baked beans habit ! No 
wonder he is giving up litigation for manufacturing. Nothing 
should be allowed to mar the peace that reigneth beneath the fin 
of the Sacred Codfish. 

" Boston, December 1, 1906. 
" Dear Fellows : 

" I have always felt dead sure that being ex-'92 was going 
to count with St. Peter as a big enough item to outweigh a 
bushel of faults, for it is the best class going, and he must have 
heard something of its glorious career. As none of my own 
stunts, so far, have been inscribed in any hall of fame, I am the 
more glad to chip in what I can toward that '92 Entry, where 
the Class name will be carved in stone for all of us. 

" The small son, so touchingly depicted in the photograph, 
at the early age of three months, already clamors for food and 



60 PRINCETON NINETY-TWO 

Princeton in the same breath, and the air here has had no 
Harvard influence upon him. This Boston atmosphere is not 
so bad, after all, and even if lawyers' bills are smaller than in 
New York, manufacturers seem to prosper, so it is easy to see 
why I should gradually take more interest in the manufactur- 
ing of new inventions and less in fighting patent suits over them ; 
so when any of you fellows get to Boston you may not always 
find me in my law office, but always ready to go out at any time 
of day to eat baked beans with wandering travelers. 

" Alfred B. Carhart." 



HERBERT SWIFT CARTER, A.M., M.D. 

Physician. Address, 66 West 55th Street, New York City. 

Married Mabel Stewart Pettit, Orange, N. J., January 12, 1898. 
Children, Alida Stewart, b. October 26, 1898. Herbert Swift, 
Jr., b. September 30, 1900. Alan, b. July 29, 1904. 

HERB CARTER holds a medical diploma from Columbia 
(the P. & S.), dated 1895. He went over to Berlin 
in 1898 for a year's further study, and on his return was an 
instructor in Pathology at the Cornell Medical School from 
1899 to 1900. He is attending physician at the Episcopal 
Orphan Home and at Lincoln Hospital, besides being chief of 
medical clinic at the Presbyterian Hospital, New York. He 
has published several articles in the American Journal of Medi- 
cal Science, the Medical News, the Medical and Surgical Re- 
port of the Presbyterian Hospital, and in the New York State 
Journal of Medicine. He tells us that these articles are on 
medical subjects. Somehow we suspected it. 

" My dear Committee : 

" Your repeated appeals for my life's history since 1892 
have been a distinct shock to my native modesty, and only their 



BIOGRAPHIES 61 

urgency (third notice) has induced me to come out of my 
shell and tell you ' all the news that's fit to print.' 

" I suppose you want to know it all, down to the subconscious 
self, for the barometric variations of a medical man's life are 
numerous. However, the reports of the everyday physician 
are not loud enough, as a rule, to be heard down the block, and 
like the ' still, small voice,' need a quiet environment to be heard 
at all. The little bunch of '92 men who elected to study their 
fellow-men's failings had three good years together, and they 
proved a rude awakening from the four years of more or less 
easygoing life at Princeton, there having been no preceptorial 
system in the good old days, and compared with what we had 
enjoyed, we discovered ourselves up against a large proposi- 
tion. The one difference of note between our university and 
medical school life, was the one fact, that some of us had been 
sent to college while we had individually chosen to study medi- 
cine. Three years of hospital work, more or less, kept some of 
us still together. That and a lot more of our work is not of 
the fortune-amassing type, and although it has its disadvan- 
tages, it does not lay us open so readily to an investigation. In 
fact the man who goes into medicine for purely financial rea- 
sons is usually doomed to disappointment, for few can bring up 
a family and amass a fortune at one and the same time. 

" One of the most successful operations of my life was that 
of getting married (McWilliams needn't read this part of my 
letter unless he wants to), and next to that, collecting a family 
— two young Princetonians and a strong rooter of the opposite 
sex. I find this family a very absorbing combination, so much 
so in fact that I have little time for club life, and consequently 
do not see as much of the men as I should like to, with a few 
exceptions, although I am a pretty regular attendant at im- 
portant baseball and football games. 

" It would be difficult to write as you ask of my everyday 
life, and even if I did, it would hardly contain reading matter 



62 PRINCETON NINETY-TWO 

of general interest. We medical men are trying to ' make 
good ' with the same spirit that you, the lawyers, divines, pro- 
fessors and business men are doing; we differ only in details. 
To develop a working philosophy of life is what we are all, in 
our own way, trying to do, I take it; sometimes we get selfish 
in the process, and sometimes we develop in this latter; let us 
hope that it may be said as of yore, ' Ninety-two's the stuff the 
people say.'" " Faithfully yours, 

" Herbet S. Carter. 
" 66 W. 55th Street, N. Y." 

MARSHALL A. CHRISTY 

Lawyer. Office Farmers' Bank Building, Pittsburg, Pa. Resi- 
dence, Sewickley, Pa. 

Married Irene B. McVay, Sewickley, Pa., April 21, 1897. Children. 
Sarah Marshall, b. December 21, 1898. Annie Huntington. 
b. November 22, 1900. 

CHRISTY is practicing law at Pittsburg, being chiefly en- 
gaged with patent cases. He took two years of the three- 
year course at the Harvard Law School, and did not graduate, 
lie is a member of the Princeton Club of New York, the Pitts- 
burg Club, the Allegheny Country Club and the Edgeworth 
Club. He votes the Republican ticket. We were beginning to 
despair of getting him when he responded. 

" Pittsburg, January, 15, 1907. 
"My pear Prentice: 

" Please understand me as offering abject and profuse 
apologies for my failure to answer your many and very proper 
appeals for data for the Class Record. 

" I enclose herewith answers to your questions, but I regret 
to say, no photograph as yet. Natural remissness and pressure 
of other matters must be mv only excuse. If there is still time. 





H. S. Carter 



A. Church 



V. L. Collins 



ii a / 



( 



HOflUHO ./. 






BIOGRAPHIES 63 

I will have one taken and send it on ; if not, the Record will 
have to get along without that embellishment. Please let me 
know how much time I have. As to my personal history since 
graduation, the answers to your questions tell the story so 
fully that I can think of nothing specific to add — practically 
the usual life of a married professional man, pretty steady 
work, which is more often close than otherwise, and for results 
a fair allowance of hay, with an occasional bite at the clover, 
and what has been, I suppose, the proper ratio of the troubles 
which every man has to have and to get by somehow. That is 
about all that there is to be said." 



ALONZO CHURCH, A.M. 

Lawyer. Business Address, 800 Broad Street, Newark, N. J. 
Residence, 688 High Street, Newark N. J. Unmarried. 

ION entered journalism immediately after graduation, and 
_J made a reputation for himself, but the attractions of the 
legal profession making themselves felt, he studied law and was 
admitted to the bar in 1898, as an attorney, and as a counsellor 
in 1901 ; the Chief Justice appointed him a Supreme Court 
Commissioner in 1902, and the Chancellor made him a Special 
Master in Chancery in 1904. 

Lon's long service on the Essex County Park Commission is 
something for which the county owes him a debt of gratitude. 
He is largely responsible, we understand, for the excellent park 
system now in use; and the only occasions he has appeared on 
the public platform have been when he was lecturing before 
local clubs and societies on the topic of public parks. 

He says that the only military service he has seen is that 
of his brother, Dr. James R. Church, '88 — and when you speak 
of Robb Church you are going some ; certainly enough for one 
family. 



64 PRINCETON NINETY-TWO 

Lon belongs to the Cannon and Nassau Clubs of Princeton, 
the Princeton Club of New York, the Sons of the American 
Revolution of New York, and the St. Johns Lodge, No. 1, 
F. & A. M. Here is his letter : 

" Newark, N. J., November 13, 1906. 
" Messrs. Howard Crosby Butler, V. Lansing Collins and 

Willlvm K. Prentice, 

" Committee of the Class of '92 : — Your communication of 
May 15 has been received, and with the promptness which 
always characterizes my actions, I hasten to reply. 

" It is difficult to write very much about my career since I 
left Princeton. Nothing very interesting has happened in my 
life, and no stupendous honors have thus far been thrust upon 
me. 

" The day after graduation I came to Newark, and secured 
a position as reporter on the Newark Daily Advertiser, in which 
capacity I wrote many remarkable literary efforts; none of 
which made me very famous. 

" In 1894 I was appointed secretary of the Essex County 
Park Commission, an organization which that year had been 
created. The commission was authorized to spend two million 
five hundred thousand dollars on laying out a system of public 
parks for Essex County. Owing to this fortunate fact, I was 
able to begin the study of law, which I did in the office of Henry 
Young, Esq., '62. I was admitted as an attorney in 1898, and 
formed a partnership with Henry Young, Jr., Esquire, '93. 
This partnership continued for about two years. In 1901 I 
was admitted as a counsellor at law, and shortly thereafter 
formed a partnership with Honorable Joseph L. Munn, '62, 
which partnership is still in existence. 

" In 1901 I was made counsel to the Park Commission, with 
an additional salary, which helped considerably. 

" The practice of the law is a confining occupation, and 



BIOGRAPHIES 65 

takes up almost all of my time. I seldom go away from 
Newark, and have not had an opportunity to interest myself in 
politics, except, as Mr. Hearst says, to serve in the ranks. 

" The only offices I have ever held are those identified with 
the legal profession, as Supreme Court Commissioner and 
Special Master in Chancery. 

" I have been faithful in my attendance at class reunions. I 
have paid my subscription to the Class Memorial, and I have 
been to every Yale football game since 1888. 

" In spite of the most earnest efforts on my part, I am still 
unmarried, and am like to continue in that sad state. The 
only hope that I have is that my nephew and namesake, who 
is now four years old, may one day be an undergraduate at 
Princeton. 

" There are only a few '92 men in Newark, and of these I 
see but little. Duffield began life as a reformer, and wound up 
as a devoted adherent to a most frightful octopus ; therefore, of 
course, I cannot chum with him. A. Ball is the only other 
classmate who resides here, except some who are in the insane 
asylum. 

" I regret that I am unable to further electrify the Class, but 
trust that I may be counted as one who will ever retain his 
affection for his Alma Mater, and for those who, in under- 
graduate days, were bound to him by lasting ties of friendship. 
" Very sincerely yours, 

" Alonzo Church." 

" Please return my photo, this one is my last." 



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VARNUM LANSING COLLINS, A.M. 

Teaching. Address, 31 Bank Street, Princeton, N. J. 
Married Princetta Lee Hanger, Georgetown, D. C, November 20, 
1901. Children, none. 

" Gentlemen and Sirs : 

" Taking up the thread of my biography where C. P. Butler 
left it with a roast in the Triennial Record, I would say that my 
life since 189-1 has been spent here in Princeton, mostly in the 
University Library, where from 1896 to 1906 I was Reference 
Librarian. I was practically in charge of the public end of 
the Library, which accounts for the fact that whenever any of 
you belated seekers after knowledge dropped in, you found me 
in evidence. In connection with the reference work, I had 
charge of the Princeton collection and the collections of auto- 
graph manuscripts, etc., and a few other things. This, as much 
as anything else, developed my interest in early Americana, 
especially New Jerseyana, and anything bearing at all on 
Princeton and Princeton men. I suppose, therefore, that my 
hobby is Princetoniana. In 1903 the New Jersey Library 
Association elected me its President for the year ; and last year 
I was made General Editor of the Princeton Historical Associa- 
tion ; and with Howard Butler and Vreeland I edited for a 
couple of years that charming and unpopular quarterly, the 
Princeton University Bulletin. It quit business under our ex- 
pert management. These I believe are all the distinctions I 
can claim, having as yet neither run for the Legislature nor 
tried to reform spelling. Besides the two associations men- 
tioned above I am also a member of the American Library 
Association, the Modern Language Association, the American 
Bibliographical Society, the N. J. Historical Society, the Ameri- 
can Historical Association, and the Nassau Club of Princeton, 
of which I am Secretary. 



BIOGRAPHIES 67 

" The public platform has not been graced to any extent by 
my person — not to the extent that Prentice and Howard Butler 
have gone, for instance. They travel the country over in one- 
night stands with lectures and lantern slides in their pockets. 
I did once make a journey to the Orange where the Hon. Ed. 
Duffield lives, to lecture on Princeton in the popular course 
arranged by him for his Public Schools — he being President of 
the local Board of Education. The janitor said it was a grand 
lecture; but to me it was memorable for the fact that the local 
stereopticon operator ran the pictures in wrong end foremost. 
But nobody save the President and the Lecturer seemed to 
know the difference, and the former soon after quit his job. 
Another time I betook myself to Mount Holly, N. J., to lecture 
before a club of which Dunham, '91, was president, and I was 
guilty once of reading a paper before the Graduates' Club 
here, on " The Charlemagne Romances," and I have had the 
honor two or three times of addressing the college Senior 
Elective class in American History, on the visit of the Con- 
tinental Congress to Princeton in 1783. Of course I have had 
to read my share of papers before various Library gatherings, 
and those published are listed, with my other invaluable con- 
tributions to knowledge, in the Hot Air Furnace. By the way, 
if any one suffers from insomnia I can recommend an examina- 
tion of my " Newark Bibliography." It is a rapid, delightful 
and sure cure. In October, 1906, I was the orator at the com- 
memorative meeting of the New Jersey Society of Colonial 
Dames held in Nassau Hall, when I spoke about the historical 
associations of the building. In June, 1906, I resigned my 
position in the Library to accept a Preceptorship in the Modern 
Language Department of the University. 

" In 1901 I did the best thing ever, being married to Miss 
Hanger of Georgetown, D. C, and since then, having handed 
my bachelor quarters in the Bank Building over to Mike 
Prentice, I have lived at 31 Bank Street, a boulevard not notable 



68 PRINCETON NINETY-TWO 

for its architectural or landscape beauties, but where at least, 
bed, bath, and board are ready for any '92 visitor. 

" In 1904, a year's leave of absence coming my way, Mrs. Col- 
lins and I sailed for Europe and spent the year making a big 
circle through Scotland, England, France, Sicily, Italy, Switzer- 
land, and so back to Paris and England. It didn't seem to 
be '92' s year abroad ; we met only three of the Great and 
Glorious. At Pompeii I found Joe Huston looking very fit 
and piloting a party of friends ; and later that afternoon I 
heard him testing the acoustic properties of the amphitheatre 
by impressing his audience across the ruin that the war had 
to go on — we had to fight through — and if the war had to go 
on, why put off longer, etc. I supplied the missing Roman 
Mob and cried Huzza at fitting moments. He and I hadn't 
spent hours in the Old Chapel for nothing ! Then one fine after- 
noon at Weggis on Lake Luzerne we were joined by Prentice, 
fresh from Syria. We had several beers. At Paris later on 
Howard Butler took me one morning to call on some of his 
alleged acquaintances in the administration offices of the 
Louvre. They saw us first. I did not meet them. 

" My recreations are golf, bridge, and billiards, with an oc- 
casional powwow on the affairs of the nation, held in my old 
rooms in the Bank Building. Despite my modesty, I am com- 
pelled to say that I still make a bluff at singing, having been 
a member of the choir of Trinity Church here for some fifteen 
years. Marcus Farr's son Vernon is one of our boy soloists. 
Members of the class are welcome, admission free, any Sunday 
— to listen. I am also on the staff of lay readers of the parish. 
Politically I am a Republican, but have found no opportunity 
to work the party for my good. Nothing doing as regards 
military or naval service. Had all I wanted of the latter cross- 
ing the Atlantic and the Mediterranean. 

" Looking back over these fifteen years I very easily reach the 
conclusion that, up to our necks in work though we are, we 



BIOGRAPHIES 69 

who live here, this " academic life " is not one wherein we make 
money or win prominent public positions. But there are com- 
pensations. For instance, speaking for myself, I have made 
any number of new friends and have ripened friendships begun 
years ago. Then there is the opportunity we have of being on 
the ground when reunions and other gatherings bring you 
fellows back to the old burg. And there is also the fact that 
we who work here have a chance to aid in the development of 
an institution which despite its faults we have grown to love 
more intimately and dearly as the years go by. The boyish 
enthusiasm of undergraduate days has become something deeper 
and more earnest. Princeton is a very different place from the 
college you knew ; we hope it will be a still better place before 
we get through with it. And finally, there are the compensa- 
tions which the academic life brings to those who live it, but 
which cannot be explained without going into details and mak- 
ing this letter an essay. It's too long already." 



LEON MARTIN CONWELL 

Editor. Business Address, Union Square, Somerville, Mass. 

Residence, 1 Harvard Square, Somerville, Mass. 
Married Harriette Brewster, Worthington, Mass., June 19, 1901. 

Children, Agnes Elizabeth, b. July 6, 1903. 

CONNY, like Carhart, has gone to New England. String 
Beans is now Baked. He is the editor of the celebrated 
Somerville Journal. He went into journalism after graduation, 
and became in 1900 news editor of the Philadelphia Press. He 
is a Republican and not an officeholder. He travelled around 
the world in 1892-1893 and has since lived in Philadelphia and 
Somerville, holding all sorts of editorships. He keeps his weight 
down by tennis and bowling, and for recreation he plays bil- 
liards and bridge. At the Philadelphia welcome to President 



70 PRINCETON NINETY-TWO 

Wilson in April, 11)0:5, Conny spoke for the Princeton Club of 
Philadelphia, on " Trusts." One oi' the thoughts embalmed In 
the amber of liis remarks was this: " While not able to count my 

first thousand I love to bask in the sunlight of those who possess 

millions. When I see the Steel Trust and the Standard Oil 

Trust ami the Beef Trust I often wish that Princeton could 
follow the words oi' the poet and 'be sustained and soothed by 
an unfaltering trust/ " Conny is one oi' the regular attendants 
ami orators at meetings of the Princeton Alumni Association 
oi' New England. 

ELMER JACOB COOK, LL.B.^ 

Lawyer. Address, Towson, Md, 

Married Edith Eliiabeth Lawson, Galveston, Texas, June t>. 1905. 

Children, none. 

FROM 1898-1895 Cook was Principal oi' the Academy at 
Bel Air, Md. He thou studied law at the University oi' 
Maryland, taking his degree in 1896, since when he has been 
located at Towson. lie belongs to the Baltimore Country 
Club and to the Pimlico Country Club. He is a Democrat, and 
is counsel for Baltimore County, for the United Railways & 
Electric Company of Baltimore, counsel for Baltimore County 
for the G. B. S. Brewing Company, ami for the l T . S. Fidelity 
and Guaranty Company. He is the suburban member of the 
'92 syndicate that runs Baltimore, oi' whom more later. 

"Towson, Md., Oct. 88, 1900. 

" My Him; PrENTICE: 

" I enclose photo, as requested. After graduating 1 was 

elected principal of the Academy at Bel Air, Md.. which 
position I held three years, reading law at the same time 
in the office oi' Hon. Stevenson A. Williams, '70. Was ad- 
mitted to the bar, and afterwards took the course in law at 

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been located at Towson, Baltimore County, since then, having 
a city office with Messrs. Grain & Hershey, 809-819 Calumet 
Building, Baltimore. 

" On June 6, 1905, I was married to Miss Edith Elizabeth 
Lawson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas P. Lawson, of Gal- 
veston, Texas. I am getting along well and like the practice of 
law. Within the past year I assisted in organizing the Second 
National Bank of Towson, of which I have been elected 1st 
Vice-President and Counsel. Am also local counsel for The 
United Railways and Electric Company of Baltimore, and sev- 
eral other corporations. I fear I am talking too much about 
myself ; hope to see all the '92 men in June, 1907, at Princeton. 
" Sincerely yours, 

" Elmer J. Cook." 

PIERRE FREDERICK COOK, A.M. 

Lawyer. Business Address, 1 Exchange Place, Jersey City, N. J. 
Residence, 146 Jewett Avenue, Jersey City, N. J. 

Married Marie E. Cottraux, New Orleans, April 26, 1905. Chil- 
dren, none. 

PETER COOK says he has written no books, but has ad- 
dressed petitions at various times to the Memorial Com- 
mittee, denunciatory previous to his appointment on the 
Committee, since then nothing but praise. In politics he is a 
good Democrat and has written letters to Executives and other 
public functionaries urging the appointment of various '92 
men to positions annexed to substantial salaries ; but he himself 
has never held office. He has, however, occupied positions of 
Commissioner in lunacy cases, and others of trust and con- 
fidence " too sacred to be thus publicly revealed." When free 
from the cares of his profession he walks and does odd jobs 
about the house, or else indulges " in such harmless diversions 
as the neighboring metropolis affords." His hobby is domes- 



7% PRINCETON NINETY-TWO 

ticity and a constant endeavor to demonstrate to his bachelor 
classmates the folly of their way. 

" 1-H> Jeweti Avenue, Jvusfy City, N. J., Nov, 18, '06. 

" Ml Dvak Kfi i.y : 

" Ever since the day you sauntered into my office and 
announced that before lunch you were disgusted with those 

of our class who had subscribed to the Memorial and hail 
failed to make good, and that after lunch and some Jersey beer 
you loved them all, I have been postponing- this letter in response 
to the inquiries of the Record Committee; but I can no longer 
withstand the urgent calls which have been showered upon me 
ami submit the enclosed answers to interrogations, 

'" After fifteen years the dear faces ot' my classmates are as 
plainly before me as they were the evening Tommy Bell turned 
out the counterfeit dollars, and I wish to pay a slight tribute 
to-night to the little company we all love so well. Some have 
grown richer and some poorer; some have designed State Houses 
and have addressed assemblies to which gatherings ot' Phila- 
delphia alumni have failed by comparison; some have grown 
larger and have found that life's greatest happiness lies not 
in the material benefit, ami others. God help them, have grown 
smaller and care for nothing else. But through and around us 
all is the old *9- spirit winch is like wine in our veins and which 
needs only the grasp ot' a classmate's hand to burn up bright 
and strong. 

" Of myself I have little to say that would be ot' interest other 
than that I have found happiness in my profession and in the 
blessings which a kind Providence has furnished. The limita- 
tions set by the Committee have somewhat restricted me, but I 
trust none ot' them will be transgressed if I express the hope 
that the old loyalty which has stood many trials and has lived 
through all these years will live as long as the last survivor of 
dear old *9& " Sincerely yours. 

" Fikrre F. Took." 



BIOGRAPHIES 73 



RICHARD COULTER, JR. 

Lawyer. Address, Greensburg, Pa. Unmarried. 

THE King of the Cotton-Tops is passed master at 
standing pat. We extracted a small collection of bare 
facts from him and had to go elsewhere for their cloth- 
ing. He says he has taken no part in politics and has never 
held office ; he travelled in the Hawaiian and Philippine Is- 
lands and Japan in 1898 and 1899; he is connected with 
the First National Bank of Greensburg and with several 
coal companies ; farming is his hobby ; horseback riding and 
golf are bis recreations. Up at the Adjutant General's 
office, in Harrisburg, they have him recorded with this entry : 
" Enrolled 2d lieutenant, Company I, 10th Regiment Penn- 
sylvania Volunteer Infantry on April 27, 1898 ; mustered in 
May 11, 1898, mustered out with his company, August 22, 
1899." He is now Major of the 10th Regiment, National 
Guard of Pennsylvania. But between the lines of that des- 
iccated record there is a whole lot of exciting adventure 
hidden. Dick has forgotten all about it and couldn't tell the 
story himself, so we had to dig out at least one episode from 
other sources. This is how the King of the C. T.'s won his 
spurs. It happened in March, 1899, during the seven days' 
march on Malolos for which Funston and the 20th Kansas got 
so much glory. Dick led his gallant men through a murderous 
fire to the relief of the artillery and then directed the fire upon 
the enemy across the river. The fusillade lasted an hour, when 
the Filipinos displayed a flag of truce. Richard with a couple 
of men saw his chance, and hustling down the river a bit, swam 
across and running up to the insurgent stronghold with his 
band of two demanded instant surrender, or he'd fight it out 
along that line if it took all summer. The Filipinos were so 



74 PRIXCETOX XIXETY-TWO 

surprised to see this yellow-haired chap in their midst that they 
couldn't surrender quick enough ; and Dick and his two trusties 
surrounded 50 guns and 20 men, receiving himself the com- 
mander's sword. After a while General Funston and a couple 
of companies came charging up to capture everything in 
sight. They found Lieutenant Coulter in possession chewing 
a wooden toothpick and drying his clothes in the sun. They 
were disgusted. Dick held on to the sword. It was all he got. 



HARRY FRANKLIN COVINGTON, A.M. 

Teaching. Address, 84 Edgehill Street. Princeton, N. J. 
Married Priscilla Upshur, Blue Ridge Summit, October 25, 1905. 
Children, none. 

WE got a reaction from Harry only by sitting over him 
with a club. He has threatened in consequence to issue 
an unexpurgated biography of the editors of this book, and 
we have urged him to do it. Harry was one of the ninety and 
nine Rednev Hart proudly alludes to, who obtained their 
Master's degree for the asking in June. 1895. The year fol- 
lowine graduation he was a Fellow in Princeton, in 1893 was 
made an Assistant in Oratory, in 1898 Assistant Professor of 
Oratory, and in 190-t his title was changed to Assistant Pro- 
fessor oi' English. He has now been in the Department longer 
than anyone else, excepting Professor Hunt. He has been 
prominently associated with the debating interests of the col- 
lege, and has for several years acted as chief coach of our 
intercollegiate debating teams. In 1903 he published a 
" Pamphlet on Debating and Brief Drawing " which we under- 
stand is the embryonic form of an important work on the sub- 
ject which he has on the stocks. Coming from the Eastern 
Shore Harry claims to be a Democrat of the old school; but 
he admits having voted and worked for the election of Professor 



BIOGRAPHIES 75 

H. D. Thompson, Republican, to the State Legislature. The 
summer of 1906 Harry and his wife spent in Europe; otherwise 
he has confined his travels to the Pennsylvania Railroad between 
New York and Baltimore, with summer sidesteps to Snow Hill, 
Md., and other points on the Eastern Shore. He is an en- 
thusiastic tennis player, and during the pingpong craze claimed 
to be the Faculty champion, having (also claimed) an unbroken 
series of victories. 

" In attempting to answer your request for an autobiograph- 
ical letter, I am reminded of a sentence in Tristram Shandy to 
the effect that ' the circumstances with which everything in 
this world is begirt, give everything in this world its size and 
shape.' And so Sterne tells of many things, but barely suc- 
ceeds in allowing Tristram Shandy, the hero, to be born! No 
class of recent graduation has more successful, more promising, 
or more representatives in the University Faculty at Princeton, 
than the class of Ninety-Two ! At present, we are eight in all — 
Butler, Collins, Critchlow, Farr, Hulett, Prentice and Vree- 
land, — besides myself. In addition, our Princeton colony in- 
cludes our distinguished classmates, Jesse Williams and Wistar 
Hodge, so that there are really ten of us living in the shades 
of Old Nassau. But how unlike the good old days when we 
were all here together, loafing much, studying less, and singing 
to our hearts' content " '92 is the stuff " ! Listen to the 
more stately tread of your Faculty members ! Five of them are 
shaping the tongues of our youth, two are giving guidance into 
scientific depths, and one expounds wisdom from an accumulated 
knowledge of the art and architecture of the ages. Think of 
Mike and Howard making " squeezes " on the Arabian desert ! 
Behold Howard also presiding over the graduate school as 
" Master of Merwick," and behold Mike a toga-ed scholar of 
Greek antiquity, who makes boys stand up and say Ttecpdaofiac 
rd deovra ttocstv. Wilkie (the bearded '92 man in the Faculty) 



76 PRINCETON NINETY-TWO 

has forsaken his important function as Reference Librarian, 
or bureau of information of the University, to become allied 
with the Department of Modern Languages, of which, by the 
way, " Pop " Vreeland is the dignified head. Farr wears the 
honored title of " Curator of Vertebrate Paleontology," while 
Hulett is one of the valued additions to the Department of 
Chemistry. 

" Among such learned personages, I must not entirely lose 
sight of my Hero. He has been connected with the University 
since graduation. Besides teaching, he has given a good deal 
of his time to the intercollegiate debating work. His chief 
interest at present is in English Literature, and in giving to 
the Halls something of their former prominence and usefulness. 

" The climax of this epistle is not to be — as in the case of 
Tristram Shandy — the birth of the Hero, but his marriage — 
Professor Hunt says of him that the best thing he ever did was 
to get married, and I am quite sure that I agree with him. 
" Faithfully yours, 

" H. F. Covington. 

" Princeton, N. J., Jan. 1907." 

MILTON BOYD CRAIGHEAD 

Paymaster, Gaar, Scott & Co. Address, Richmond, Ind. 
Married Martha B. Carson, Knightstown, Ind., April 11, 1906. 
Children, none. 

CRAIGHEAD is paymaster of Gaar, Scott & Co., manu- 
facturers of threshing machinery, at Richmond, Indiana. 
Possibly he elected this particular firm because it is famous as 
being the makers of the " Tiger Thresher Line." The firm's 
registered trademark is a lifelike representation of the beast — 
passant, sinister, guardant, or, super two hemispheres, argent, 
motto: "Gaar, Scott & Co., the Tiger Thresher Line, Rich- 
mond, Ind., U. S. A." Craighead's garden is his hobby in 



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F. L. Critchlow 




BIOGRAPHIES 77 

summer and his furnace is his " constant delight " in winter. 
He says: 

" It seems a long time since June, 1892, when we left Prince- 
ton, but as I call up personal matters I can see ' something 
attempted, something done.' Publicly, I am a nonentity ; the 
only official work I have ever done has been the deeds of a 
notary public. Privately I now hold the position of paymaster 
in a large manufacturing plant in this city. Best of all, I have 
taken unto myself a wife. We were married in April, 1906, 
and after a fine trip to Hot Springs, Va., Old Point Comfort, 
New York, and a visit to Princeton, settled down in our home 
in Richmond where a warm welcome awaits any classmate at 
211 N. 8th Street. " M. B. Craighead." 



FRANK LINLEY CRITCHLOW, A.M., Ph.D. 

Teaching. Address, 8 N. W v Princeton, N. J. Unmarried. 

THIS is the story of the Man That Was. Critch, as we all 
recollect, died and was " resolution-ized " and then came 
back to college and was graduated with the class of 1896. He 
taught at the Pingry School, Elizabeth, from 1896 to 1899. 
Entered Johns Hopkins University as a graduate student, ob- 
taining his doctorate in Romance Languf ges in 1903. He was 
called to Princeton in 1902 as an instructor in French, and 
since 1905 has been a Preceptor in Modern Languages under 
the new system. Critch has crossed the Atlantic several times, 
the last time (1902) on a tramp ship, being listed as surgeon 
in the ship's company. He has travelled or resided in England, 
France, Germany, Switzerland and Belgium. He belongs to 
the Harmonic Saenger Verein of Baltimore, the Alpha Delta 
Phi and the Phi Beta Kappa and the Nassau Club of Princeton. 
He offers this explanatory statement: 



78 PRIXCETOX XIXETY-TWO 

"Princeton, Oct. 8, 1906. 
" My Dear Kelly : 

" That photograph you asked of me recently has spoiled 
in the making and I cannot obtain one for you at any price 
at so late a day. Please allow me a word picture instead. 

" I am, to begin with, very much alive, and also delighted at 
this opportunity of making a statement to that effect from 
my own pen. My business is teaching and the more I engross 
myself in that otiose calling the more I enjoy it. At the 
University here a preceptor's life is an enviable one when com- 
pared with some of the more profitable yet less sordid occupa- 
tions than that of a teaching-man. Not married yet, but receive 
constant, admonition from friends to put off no longer the 
dreadful day. Perhaps I won't much longer if only for the 
sweet sake of our friend, the secretary of the class. As the years 
elapse I find my interests growing in books (the inside part). 
and I cannot close without asking the class to give a thought 
to our Library here ; it needs books and money. With very best 
wishes to every one, I remain, 

" Very fraternally yours, 

,,~ ~ ,™-„ " F. L. Critchlow." 

" October 8, 1906." 

ORVILLE PLATT CURRAN, Jr., C.E. 

Coal operator. Business Address, Mercantile Library Building, 
Cincinnati, Ohio. Residence, 4219 Floral Avenue, Norwood, 
Ohio. 

Married Marie I. Brown, Chicago, May 29, 1895. Children, Doro- 
thy I., b. February 25, 1900. 

ALTHOUGH Punk's offices are in a library building he 
disseminates not knowledge but heat. He is a coal mag- 
nate^ — and he has had lots of experience. Here is his 
record to date: Assistant Engineer, Shailer and Sniglean Co. 
of Chicago, partner in Curran and Hussey Co. Engineering 



BIOGRAPHIES 79 

and Contracting, of Pittsburg, President and Manager of the 
Economy Fuel Co., Charleston, W. Va., President of the Curran 
Coal Co. and Manager of Black Band Coal and Coke Co., Cin- 
cinnati, Ohio. He is a member of the Cincinnati Chamber of 
Commerce and of the Cincinnati Business Men's Club and the 
Masonic Club. His hobby is machinery. He is a Republican. 
Follows his greeting: 

" Cincinnati, 0., Dec. 7, 1906. 
" Class of '92, Princeton, N. J. 

" Dear Classmates : — There is so much that I could say to 
you that there would not be room enough for the other letters 
if it were all printed, so I will confine myself to a few lines. 

" I have been chasing about the country a great deal since 
leaving college, in pursuit of my fortune, and have come to the 
conclusion that the old saying a " rolling stone " is about true, 
so have decided to locate and try to accumulate some moss. 

" I am married, happy, and have one daughter almost seven 
years old. If any of you ever come to Cincinnati be sure and 
let me know. Wishing you all much happiness and prosperity 
in the future, I remain, 

" Most sincerely, 

" O. P. Curran." 

JOHN C. DaCOSTA, Jr., M.D. 

Physician. Residence, 1022 Spruce Street, Philadelphia, Pa. 

Married Elizabeth S. Hays, Carlisle, Pa., October 24, 1894. Chil- 
dren, John C. IV., b. October 28, 1896. Jean Van Ness, 
b. April 30, 1898. 

JACK DaCOSTA was graduated from the Jefferson Med- 
ical College at Philadelphia in 1893, following his work 
there with a postgraduate course of one year at the University 
of Pennsylvania Medical School. During the Spanish War he 



80 PRINCETON NINETY-TWO 

was an Assistant Surgeon in the Volunteers with rank of First 
Lieutenant. He is the author of " Clinical Hematology," 
which has gone into a second edition, and of other medical 
works listed in the H. A. F. He belongs to the Art Club of 
Philadelphia, and is an enthusiastic fisherman, his specialty 
being salmon and trout. 



GEORGE KIDDER DAVIS 

Coal business. Business Address, Warrior Run Coal Co., Warrior 
Run, Pa. Residence, 166 South Franklin St., Wilkes-Barre, 
Pa. 

Married Helen Dawson Gallatin, N. Y. City, Dec, 1898. Children, 
none. 

AT the Hofbrau reunion last winter Turkey seemed to labor 
under the impression that he would send us his replies to 
the circular issued for this Record. Repeated reminders subse- 
quently had no result other than this penciled note of January 
10, 1907: 

" Dear Mike : 

" I haven't time to spit, let alone writing up my biography 
for you. I expect to have it done later by the best historians. 
I am 5 ft. 9, weigh 165 and try to behave myself. Nothing 
ever happens to me anyway. You will find G. Davis' picture in 
the Rogues' Gallery." 

We kept after him until the time came for C. O. D. telegrams. 
The one we sent him was returned by the Western Union, 
" Party sailed for Europe, Monday," dated Feb. 6, 1907. 

From other sources we learn that Turkey is secretary of the 
Warrior Run Coal Company, that he is a twin and of the blonde 
type, that his skin goes all around him with the bones inside, 
that otherwise he looks normal, that he lives mainly in the Sab- 




J. C. Dacosta, Je. 



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bath school, and that he does not smoke, drink, chew, swear, 
play bridge, or anything in fact, and is a devotee of the rest 
cure. Our informant regrets that he can't help us out with 
more details, and says " his [Turkey's] peregrinations are so 
very sporadic I can't sidestep him." 



HERMAN STEARNS DAVIS, A.M., Ph.D. 

Astronomer, Civil and Electrical Engineer. Office, 52 William 
Street, New York City. Permanent Address, Dover, Del. 

Married Coreita Register Hoffecker, Dover, Del., May 24, 1894. 
Children, Erminia, b. February 28, 1906; d. February 28, 1906. 

DAVIS is one of America's most widely known astronomers. 
After postgraduate study at Princeton (1892-1893) 
and Columbia (1893-1895), taking his A.M. degree in 1894, 
he won his Ph. D. in 1895. He has travelled pretty much all 
over the world in the pursuit of his scientific work, having 
visited the Azores, Cape Verde and St. Helena in 1889, 
West, Central and South Africa in 1889-1890, and the West 
Indies in 1890. In 1896 he visited Holland, Belgium, Ger- 
many, the Tyrol, Switzerland and Northern Italy, reserving 
Southern Italy, Sicily and France for 1899. During 1900 he 
was in the South and in 1905 out West. During these years 
he has held the following appointments : Assistant Astronomer 
U. S. Scientific Expedition to West Africa, 1889-90; Uni- 
versity Fellow, Astronomy and Geodesy, Columbia University, 
1893-95 ; Instructor in Astronomy and Geodesy, Columbia, 
1895-99 ; Expert Computer, U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey, 
Washington, D. C, 1900 ; Assistant U. S. Coast and Geodetic 
Survey, 1900 ; First Assistant Astronomer, Allegheny Observa- 
tory Eclipse Expedition, Union Springs, Ala, 1900 ; Director 
International Latitude Observatory, Gaithersburg, Md., 1900- 
05; Lecturer, Board of Education, N. Y. City, 1896-99 and 



82 PRINCETON NINETY-TWO 

1905-07 ; American Editor of the Astronomischer Jahresbericht 
(Berlin), since 1900; Consulting Civil and Electrical Engineer, 
N. Y. City, since 1906 ; Astronomer of the Carnegie Institu- 
tion and National Academy of Sciences, in charge of " New 
Reduction of Piazzi's Star Observations," since 1895. He was 
elected to life membership of the Astronomische Gesellschaft in 
1895, and to fellowships in the American Association for the Ad- 
vancement of Science in 1901, and he is a charter member of 
the Astronomical and Astrophysical Society of America. More- 
over he is an Ancient and Accepted Freemason and a Scottish 
Rite Mason. His military service has consisted in seeing 
parades from balconies and second story windows, but he was 
for eight months an " honorary " officer in the U. S. Navy by 
presidential appointment, serving on the U. S. S. Pensacola in 
a scientific capacity. His hobbies are printing — " the Art 
Preservative"; shorthand (Pitman's) and brief methods of 
astronomical calculations. 

As an author he has Jesse Williams and Hulett and the rest 
of us small fry left at the post. " American Men of Science " 
and Poggendorf's Biographisch-Literarisches Handworter- 
buch, vol. 4, page 301, contain a list of over 50 volumes and 
magazine articles by Davis. He has moreover delivered some- 
thins; like 85 lectures for the Board of Education of N. Y. 
City and elsewhere, and he has always been either cheered or 
suffered, having " been egged only by the boarding houses." 

Altogether Davis' record of achievements is hard to beat, 
and he is a scientist whom the class has a right to be proud to 
have on its roll. 



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JAMES LUCAS DeLONG 

Business. Business Address, Pioneer Trust Co., Kansas City, Mo. 

Residence, 1836 Pendleton Avenue, Kansas City, Mo. 
Married Alice Chappell, Kansas City, April 26, 1899- Children, 

Edmund Shackelford, b. February 14, 1900. 

CHIP DeLONG is manager of the Real Estate Depart- 
ment of the Pioneer Trust Company, K. C, Mo. He 
was so busy that he had little time to attend to his letter for 
the class and we nearly lost the photo. The following telegram 
of February 7th explains itself: 

" W. K. Prentice, Princeton, N. J., 

" Three cameras broken. Great triumph. Photo mailed. 

" J. L. DeLong." 

He is a member of the University Club at Kansas City. 
Horses are his hobby, and he votes the straight Democratic 
ticket. The only '92 man he sees frequently is Ed. Ellison — 
" great lawyer, strictly domestic, very bald, aged and unso- 
ciable, can be seen by appointment only." 



ROBERT DENNISTON, A. M., M. D. 

Physician and Surgeon. Residence, Broadway, Dobbs Ferry, N. Y. 
Married Sarita Stiles Wight, New York City, June 23, 1898. 

Children, Robert, Jr., b. March 14, 1900. Mary Wight, b. 

March 9, 1901. A son, b. July 21, 1903; d. July 22, 1903. 

Henry Scott, b. November 5, 1904. 

BOBBIE is quite some at Dobbs Ferry. Armed with the 
medical degree of Columbia (P. & S., 1895) and further 
study at Heidelberg, he landed at Dobbs Ferry after prelimi- 
nary canters in New York and Yonkers, and has been Presi- 



84 PRINCETON NINETY-TWO 

dent of the Dobbs Ferry Republican Club, a member of the 
Board of Education, and President of the Board of Health. 
Replying to what he terms our " impudent question " he ad- 
mits to have both worked the Republican party for his good 
and to have worked for the good of the party. We learn from 
private sources that Dr. Robert has a specially reserved seat 
in the front row at the Dobbs Ferry theatre. But whatever 
his head may have lost externally he has certainly developed a 
hitherto unsuspected literary talent ; and everyone who has 
read this book through to this point will welcome the following 
change from the continuous prose performance hereinbefore 
exhibited. 

Poeta nascitur, non fit — which Punk Curran translates " A 
nascent poet, not a fit." — Enter Dr. Denniston, Poet. 

" Dear Mike and the other two members of that expectant 
Committee: — This report would have been sent in long ago, 
save you wanted a letter ; that is something I never do, write 
letters, but have been told by some of my medical colleagues 
that a famous poet was lost when I took up medicine, so here 
goes: 

" All the news " of me " that's fit to print " 

Could easily be seen at a single squint. 

No fear that the lines will be " too long," 

For my muse never sang a langsome song — 

Nor will I cut it out " too short," 

For then I'd hear some things I had not ought. 

I cannot sing in a " serious " vein 

For people's talk to me is most on pain, 

And should I be too frivo-lous 

I fear the committee 'd begin to cuss. 

So here's my life for fifteen years 

Its joys and its sorrows, its hopes and its fears: 

For three years after graduation 

Worked hard for a medical education, 

Along with Baron, Herb Carter, and Mac — 

But, alas, I went to bed on my back, 

So the appointment I worked for I failed to make. 



BIOGRAPHIES 85 

To assuage my feelings a journey did take, 

Then two years in a hospital did me good, 

From thence to Dobbs Ferry to gain daily food. 

Here they've treated me well, so I cannot kick, 

Though all I hear is the groans of the sick. 

One hour an appendix operation I've planned, 

The next I'm spanking an infant, his lungs to expand. 

As to personalities: I have grown fat, 

Although I still wear the same sized hat. 

The hair on my head is very thin, 

So I won't be scalped by an Indi-in. 

I've a dandy wife, and children three, 

A combination that just suits me — ■ 

Two boys and a girl, just full of life, 

But well looked after by this self-same wife, 

I send their picture along with this; 

If you don't like it my guess is a miss. 

I've missed but one Yale game since '88, 

That Saturday train arrived a little too late. 

But the Commencement games I've lost not a season, 

And to miss that game I'll ne'er find a reason. 

To Princeton I'll always be loyal and true, 

Especially when you're talking of '92. 

So here's to old Princeton, and all of you, 

For we're both still solid through and through. 

" Yours as ever, 

" Robert Denniston." 



ARTHUR LeGRAND DOTY, C.E. 

Business. Business Address, 17 State Street, New York City, or 

Doty & Young, Casilla 623, Buenos Aires, Argentine Republic. 

Residence, Princeton Club, 72 East 34th Street, New York 

City. 
Married Florence Rosman, New York City, April 16, 1902; d. 

January 16, 1904. Children, none. 

DOTE is almost better known in Buenos Aires, or at Mor- 
ley's on Trafalgar Square, London, than he is in New 
York. He exports railway and engineering material, special- 
izing in freight cars. He is travelling on business continually 



86 PRINCETON NINETY-TWO 

in Europe and South America, and is the only '92 member of 
the celebrated Logia de Caridad at Montevideo, Uruguay, and 
of the equally familiar North American Society of the River 
Plate, Buenos Aires. When he is in our part of the world he 
remembers that he is a member of the N. Y. Society of Sons 
of the Revolution (hence in part his popularity in South 
America?) and of the Princeton Club of New York. When he 
visits Princeton, as he does at every opportunity, he does not 
forget that he is on the rolls of Tiger Inn and the Nassau 
Club. He pulled off a big stroke when he came back from 
Argentina in December, 1904, with the largest order for 
railroad equipment ever placed in this country by a foreign 
government. It amounted to nearly $750,000, and was for the 
national system of railroads in Argentina. Dote, who was rep- 
resenting the Middletown, Pa., Car Works and the Wason 
Manufacturing Company, got the order in competition with 
fifteen German, British, Austrian and French car builders, and 
his feat was considered a great victory for the American car- 
building industry. 

Here is his letter, written last Fall before he sailed again for 
South America and new conquests : 

" New York, September 26, 1906." 
" Dear Kelly : 

" I have nothing very interesting to add ' for publication ' 
to the statistics which you will find enclosed. 

" Since our graduation I have experienced much happiness 
and also much sorrow, and am now jogging along toward 
middle age at a moderate pace. A large portion of my time in 
recent years has necessarily been spent away from the States, 
as I am among the number engaged in active campaigning on 
the outposts of American Commerce, and have to be often 
present in the far-off countries where the fight is most strenu- 
ous. I have experienced some very satisfactory victories and 






S. G. Dunning 



B. Denniston 





A. LeG. Dott 



E. D. DUFFIELD 







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BIOGRAPHIES 87 

some rather discouraging setbacks, but the life appears to suit 
me well. 

" I have an office in Buenos Aires, as well as in New York, 
and divide my time between them and Europe. 

" I am looking forward to our reunion next June and arrang- 
ing to be here for it, and with the liveliest sentiment of regard 
for all my classmates, I am, 

" Faithfully yours, 

" Arthur LeGrand Doty." 

RICHARD DOWNESV 

DOWNES is a minister — or was when last heard from. 
His address used to be Mount Joy, Lancaster Co., Pa. 
After March, 1904, it was 10 Ardwick Terrace, Manchester, 
England. We do not know where he is now. 

EDWARD DICKINSON DUFFIELD, A.M., LL.B. 

Lawyer. Office, The Prudential Insurance Company, Newark, N. J. 

Residence, No. 116 Scotland Road, South Orange, N. J. 
Married Josephine Reade Curtis, Troy, N. Y., April 21, 1897. 

Children, Elizabeth Morrison, b. April 4, 1898. Dickinson 

Curtis, b. October 5, 1903. 

DUFF is our most prominent New Jersey legal light. He 
obtained his LL. B. at the New York Law School in 1894 
and his A. M. at Princeton in 1895. He says he did not study 
for the latter degree. He does not know that '92 is the last 
class that can get it for the asking. As an author he has done 
nothing to equal his celebrated and perennial " Scotch Gran- 
ite " — the memory of which immortal classic is still fragrant ; 
but he has " delivered a few speeches in behalf of the G. O. P." 
On the strength of these he was a member of the State As- 
sembly in 1904 and 1905 and was made Leader on the floor. 



88 PRINCETON NINETY-TWO 

On his election to this post the Trenton Times said editorially: 
" While a new man in New Jersey politics, Mr. Duffield is con- 
ceded to be one of the ablest members sent to the Assembly in 
recent years. With ability, strict integrity, industry, absolute 
fairness and fearlessness he has the respect and confidence of 
his fellow-members and under his guidance there will be no 
danger of serious blunders." In May, 1904, he was made As- 
sistant Attorney-general of New Jersey. From 1901-1904 he 
was President of the South Orange Board of Education and 
did good work in teaching the young Orange ideas how to shoot. 
He has travelled extensively and daily between Newark and 
Trenton. He belongs to the Nassau Club of Princeton, the 
Princeton Clubs of New York, Newark and Orange, the Law- 
yers' Club of Newark, the South Orange Field Club and the 
New Jersey State Bar Association. His hobby is reforming 
reformers. On November 15, 1906, he resigned his position in 
the Attorney-general's office to become General Solicitor of 
the Prudential Insurance Company of Newark, and his office is 
in the Newark " Gibraltar." Here is his letter: 

" Newark, N. J., June 22, 1906. 
" My Dear Prentice : 

" Replying to your circular letter of May 15th, I enclose 
herewith statistics for the Quindecennial Record of the Class 
of 1892. 

" At the present time I have no photograph of myself ' suit- 
able for reproduction in this record.' I will endeavor, how- 
ever, to procure one sometime between now and June, 1907. 
This will, therefore, comply with your first two requests. 

" I am a little at a loss to know just what to put in the letter 
which you desire. All the really important matters I have 
included in the statistical information, above referred to. 

" Ever since my graduation I have been located here in New- 
ark, engaged in the practice of law. In 1897, having entered 



BIOGRAPHIES 89 

into the holy state of matrimony, I moved to South Orange, 
where I now reside; keeping my business, however, in Newark. 
For a while after my admission to the Bar I was engaged with 
one or two law offices here, and in 1896 I commenced practice 
with William B. Kinney, '94, under the firm name of Duffield & 
Kinney. I continued with Kinney until 1902, when we dissolved 
our partnership and I formed a partnership with Edward M. 
Colie, under the firm name of Colie & Duffield. This continued 
until May, 1904, when I received the appointment of Assistant 
Attorney-general of New Jersey. The duties of this office 
forced me to dissolve my partnership with Mr. Colie, and since 
that time I have been practicing alone at the above address. 
My duties as Assistant Attorney-general are of such a character 
that I am more often out of the office here than in it, as I am 
obliged to go pretty generally over the State in order to take 
care of the various matters in which the State is interested. 
We have a rather different system here than prevails in most 
States, of requiring all the departments of the State Govern- 
ment, together with all the various boards, to do their legal 
business through our office, thereby preventing a very easy 
graft for a number of ambitious lawyers, who formerly acted 
in the capacity of counsel, and at the same time systematizing 
and simplifying the work. This, however, keeps me at it pretty 
steadily. 

" In the Fall of 1903, much to my surprise, I was thrown into 
politics by being nominated for the General Assembly of our 
State Legislature. I served here for two terms, 1904 and 
1905, and during the last year I acted as Republican Leader 
on the floor. I was gratified at being able to secure the passage 
of a bill requiring the State to purchase a portrait of the Hon- 
orable John Witherspoon, deceased. I intended on the occasion 
of the passage of this bill to deliver a large hunk of ' Scotch 
Granite,' but owing to the fact that none of my Classmates 
were present, I feared it would not be appreciated. 



90 PRIN( ETON NINET1 TWO 

" During my first year in the Legislature 1 had the pleasure 
of serving with " Little" Besaon, who was a member of the 
House ticin Hudson County, 

" Although 1 am so near Prineeton, we seem to !><■ here a little 
oil* the track; for somehow we verj seldom have any Prineeton 
men look us up, There are a number of tin- Class practicing 
law in (lie State and all doing well, Pierre Cook and Fish Hall 
arc both iu Jersey City, "Little" Besaon at Hoboken, John 
Rankin, Ion Church and myself here, and Mike Bergen is hold 
ing u[> Ins end in the lower end ^( the State. 

"I am glad to report thai the Princeton spiral in the Oranges 
has multiplied a thousand per cent, since Bob Anniu, o( '80j 
organised the Prineeton Alumni Association of the Oranges, 
The meetings of this glorious organisation partake ol' the char 
acter oi' the class reunion, and are realty thoroughly beneficial, 
promoting a healthy Princeton spirit. The Oranges are rather 
a quirt community, so that this display "i Princeton spirit may 
In- somewhai more marked than it would In- elsewhere. 

M Since moving to South Orange I have endeavored to di> my 
share in looking after the work >>t" the Town, serving for three 
years as a member of the Board of Education, and being Presi 

dent of that bodj during the term n\' my service, 'The only 

burdensome thing connected with this office was the making of 
an annual address to the graduates, However, 1 managed to 

Survive it, and turned the job over to my successor, who is 

still handing them out, 

*• Although 1 have rather gotten out of active politics since 
1 took my present appoint incut , I occasionally mix in to some 
small extent, and regret to sav tli.it at present writing 1 have 
not seen my way clear to ally myself with the SO called Reform 
Party in this State. Still 1 don't douht we need reform, and 
tlu- way things look now, we will probably get it. If they will 
only change the kind of 'reform' to some other than that 
which they are dealing out to US at the present time, no douhl 
we will all be happy w hen it comes. 



BIOGRAPHIES 91 

" As you will observe in the statistics, I have two children, 
but unless Princeton becomes co-educational, I do not see how 
I can contribute an undergraduate until 1919; if it does, I 
may be able to have one there some years sooner. 

" I fear that this is not at all what you want, and if it is not 
return it to me with such criticism as ' Granny ' Hunt used 
to favor us with, only writing it more legibly than he used to, 
and I will see what can be done towards sending you another. 

" Ever sincerely yours, 

" Edward D. Duffield." 



GEORGE THOMAS DUNLOP, C.E., LL.B. 

Lawyer. Business Address, Fendall Building, Washington, D. C. 

Residence, 1413 21st Street, N. W., Washington, D. C. 
Married Jeannette Thurston McCook, Dayton, Ohio, November 8, 

1900. Children, Alexander McCook, b. September 16, 1901. 

Katharine, b. March 24, 1905. 

IF everybody in the class had turned in his statistics in the 
shape the Snipe adopted this Record would have been a 
cinch for the editors. A pair of scissors and a pot of paste 
was all that was necessary to prepare the following for the 
printer. Dunlop studied law at George Washington Univer- 
sity (formerly Columbian) and is an LL. B. He says, regard- 
ing books, articles, speeches and lectures : 

" I have spared the public, usually so patient and long-suffer- 
ing, from my literary and oratorical efforts by withstanding 
the blandishments of the clamorous publisher. I have confined 
my writing of verse and prose fiction to my wife, the best- 
natured woman in the world; my lectures to my son, because he 
needs them most; and my speeches to the jury, because they 
can't escape and can't talk back. I have been cheered and 
solaced by the silence of my wife, egged by my son, and suf- 
fered by the jury, and so far, by the Court." 



92 PRINCETON NINETY-TWO 

As for politics, public offices, " the good of the party," 
etc., he remarks : " I have not been engaged in any questionable 
pursuits, and so far I have been able to make an honest living."' 
And this is how he managed it: 

" Immediately upon my graduation I entered the Engineer 
Department of the Capital Traction Co., where I remained for 
about 18 months. Then for two years I was private secretary 
to the President of the same Company, during which time I 
studied law. Was admitted to the D. C. Bar in November, 
1896, and at once began the practice of law." 

He is a member of the following organizations : the Metro- 
politan Club of Washington, D. C, the University Club of 
Washington, the Chevy Chase Club (Country Club), Wash- 
ington, D. C.j the Bar Association of the District of Columbia, 
the Lawyers' Association of the District of Columbia, the Board 
of Trade of the District of Columbia, the National Geograph- 
ical Society, the American Society of Political and Social 
Science, the American Bar Association, Tiger Inn, Princeton, 
the Nassau Club, Princeton, the Princeton Club, New York 
City, and the Princeton Alumni Association of the District of 
Columbia. He is as much of a golf fiend as his busy life will 
permit, and he also plays tennis, " as poker is too hard on the 
heart." Hobby? — "if you have any old Oriental rugs you 
don't want or can't use, I will gladly give them storage room 
indefinitely." 

" What '92 men do I see frequently? Jack Hanna, Fish Hall. 
Peter Cook, Fred Moses, Wilton J. Lambert, Runt Spooner, 
and Duke Burleigh ; but I understand that this is to be a respect- 
able publication." And then the Snipe sends a letter which is 
not of the common or garden variety : 



BIOGRAPHIES 93 

" Washington, D. C, October 25, 1906. 
" Dear Classmates : 

" Inasmuch as I am limited under the rules, to giving you 
only the news about myself ' that's fit to print,' my letter 
must be short, and especially uninteresting — to most of you. 
For instance, how dare a married man write interestingly of 
that unsettled period between his graduation and his wedding, 
and how can he write even approximately the truth about his 
wife and children, without incurring the risk of having them 
kidnapped by that envious throng of unfortunate bachelors 
yet extant? 

" But about my domestic life, I may simply hint to you that 
Mrs. Dunlop was the daughter of General Alexander McCook 
of the ' Fighting McCooks,' and our son, his namesake, five 
years of age, inherits the characteristics of his maternal ances- 
tors. Well, yes, I am getting quite bald, though not so bad as 
Fred Moses and Bob Denniston, but my spot is in the rear, 
which would seem to reflect upon my courage. 

" Mrs. Dunlop reminds me right here that it would be proper 
for me to say that my wife is young, beautiful, charming, a 
brilliant conversationalist, and of a lovely disposition, and I 
do say so with a great deal of feeling. My boy is a corker — 
wins all the sprints and acrobatic performances in his set, but 
is not yet old enough to take up football, baseball, golf or 
poker. I have a dreadful apprehension, however, that his 
devotion to wheels of all descriptions is the precursor of a 
passion for roulette. My baby girl is a dear, ' that's all.' 
Perhaps you have a baby girl. 

" As for my daily life and work, it would hardly be of in- 
terest to many of you, for a lawyer's work, while rather 
diversified, is usually not very exciting, except to his clients, 
if he does not take criminal cases. And when those clients are 
largely corporations, you might be tempted to remark that he 



94 PMXCETOX XIXETY-TWO 

could hardly write interestingly * without showing his books.' 
Now, if you will pardon a somewhat serious digression, perhaps 
it will not be out of place to remark that so much rottenness 
has been exposed recently in the affairs of certain, yes many, 
corporations, that one might be pardoned for feeling that the 
very word is tainted, yet we all know and everyone must realize 
that the corporation is a necessity, and an institution with un- 
limited powers of usefulness and for good in these days of large 
affairs. To help guide these artificial citizens in the paths of 
honorable and fair dealing and plain old-fashioned common or 
garden honesty in their relations with the public, such as be- 
comes the ideals of a Princeton man, is certainly a useful field 
of labor, and I am not ashamed to be engaged in it. 

" Since I separated from you at the station, in June, '92, 
I have seen a few Yale football games, and fewer Princeton 
victories. Perhaps someone can tell me why. Fortunately I 
have seen many more Princeton-Yale baseball victories and 
championships. I have traveled about our own country on 
business, and sometimes on pleasure, and have had the common 
experiences of most of you. I have spent some part of several 
summers in Canada, and I have for pleasure spent about a 
month in Cuba, in 1901, during our former occupation of that 
frivolous, but not altogether unhappy, island, which rejoices 
in its own insanity. I was also the greater part of the past 
summer in England, where among other things I was not made 
ashamed of Princeton, even in the shadows of Oxford and 
Cambridge, although in the matter of architecture they can 
beat Reunion Hall. But of the English colleo-es, for me — 
Eton. And what a place is Eton Chapel ! All the grand 
cathedrals to my eyes fade into comparative nothingness, are 
petrified, become mere cold stone, in the presence of that puls- 
ing heart of all that is best in England. Oh, such a place! It 
is not to me a building, it is not a monument, it is not a place 
of worship — it is a memory, an inspiration, a soul alive with 



BIOGRAPHIES 95 

every passion and emotion, and it runs the gamut from the old 
to the new. Why do we not hear more of Eton Chapel? 

" Of course while in England I ' did ' all the sights, including 
that shopworn, shoddy old ' palace,' Hampton Court. If I 
had to be a king and live there, I'd throw up the business. 
Such a lot of trash I never saw. And then of course I had to 
do Stratford-on-Avon, with its Shakespearian curios, museums, 
books under glass, chunks of rotten wood, bits of stone, soiled 
sheets, and all (all labeled) — in true tourist fashion; all for the 
sake of clearing the decks, so that in the future such things 
may not stand in the way of my enjoyment of beautiful old 
England. For a leisurely boating trip up the Thames from 
London to Oxford, and a number of other such unconventional 
holidays, including the beautiful English lakes and especially 
Windermere (where I might have seen Woodrow Wilson, had 
I known that he was there) — discovered to me the real charm 
of the place, so that I long to know more of it. If Kelly Pren- 
tice and the rest of the Globe-Wernicke Building Committee, 
and Duke Burleigh, aided by the Committee of Fifty, in their 
most laudable efforts, which, by the way, should be encouraged, 
and which I highly commend to your distinguished considera- 
tion, shall leave me any surplus, I certainly expect to see it all 
again, and hope you will be with me. But the traveling to 
which I look forward with greatest interest in the future, is that 
' good old summer time,' those ' days in June,' 1907, when we 
will get together for our 15th Annual Reunion and begin to 
realize that we are not even yet old men. 

" Faithfully yours, 

" G. Thomas Ditnlop." 



96 PRINCETON NINETY-TWO 



JOHN TATHEM DUNN, A.M. 

Lawyer. Business Address, 423 Connell Building, Scranton, Pa. 

Residence, Delaware Street, Scranton, Pa. 
Married Theodora Grace Brown, Wyalusing, Pa., December 19, 

1906. 

SERGEANT DUNN wrote the following letter last sum- 
mer, since when the " proposal " he alludes to has been 
taken up and he is open to congratulations. 

" Scranton, Pa., August 31, 1906. 
" Prof. William K. Prentice, Secretary, 
" 12 Nassau St., Princeton, N. J. 

" Dear Kelly: — Your letter of the 29th inst., asking for the 
' stuff for the Class Record,' just at hand. I will look up a 
photograph very soon, and see that you get it. If there have 
been lists of questions sent out for the Class Record, I have 
failed to receive the same, so that I don't exactly know what 
you are after. I suppose what you want is the story of my life 
after leaving college. There being no love story connected 
with the same, I am of the opinion that it would be of little 
interest, and the briefer I can make it the better. 

" Following graduation at Princeton, I entered McCormick 
Theological Seminary at Chicago; where I took my first year. 
The following year I went abroad and entered the University 
of Gottingen, Germany. The year following, I entered Prince- 
ton Theological Seminary, and was graduated there in 1896. 
I accepted a call as assistant pastor of the Second Presbyterian 
Church, at Scranton, where I preached for two years. Then 
I resigned, and went to Brunswick, Georgia, and accepted the 
position of inspector of customs of the Port of Brunswick, 
which I held for about nine months. Then I returned to Scran- 
ton, and took up the study of law in the law offices of Dunn & 




G. T. Dunlop 



J. T. Dunn 





H. S. Dunning 



A. F. Baenshaw 









; 



BIOGRAPHIES 97 

Walker. In the spring of 1900 I was admitted to practice 
law at Scranton, and the firm of Dunn & Walker having been 
dissolved, I became a partner of the firm of Dunn & Dunn, 
at 424 Connell Building, Scranton, where I have remained since. 
I am not married, but want to be and am open to proposals. 
" Hoping that this is the ' stuff ' you are looking for, I am 

" Yours for '92, 

"John T. Dunn." 



HARRY SLAWSON DUNNING 

Minister. Address, Port Jefferson, Long Island, N. Y. 
Married Irene Gardner, Middletown, N. Y., Aug. 28, 1900. Chil- 
dren, none. 

IITTLE DUNNING was an Instructor in English at Lehigh 
_J the year after graduation, and then entered Hartford 
Theological Seminary, where he pursued his studies preparatory 
to entering the ministry. Since his ordination he has filled 
the following pastorates: Three years at Wilkes-Barre, Pa., 
five years at Corry, Pa., and for the past two years at Port 
Jefferson, L. I. After this book had gone to press he was 
heard from personally for the first time and to the following 
effect : 

" My dear Prentice : 

" When the blank came last summer, I was having a run of 
fever. It was mislaid and did not come to light for a long time. 
When it was discovered, I confess that my interest was lagging 
and needed a large amount of stimulating. But your fusillade 
of missives is too strenuous for me. I surrender. 

" Yours truly, 

" H. S. Dunning. 
" February 20, 1907." 



98 PRINCETON NINETY-TWO 



SMITH GARDNER DUNNING 

Minister. Address, Camden, Ohio. 

Married Agnes Rose Powers, Cincinnati, Ohio, June 29, 1899- 
Children, Norma Pennoyer, b. April 26, 1901. Ronald Gard- 
ner, b. October 6, 1902. Ruth Eyman, b. March 15, 1905. 

DUNNING studied at McCormick Theological Seminary, 
Chicago, after graduation. He has been a missionary in 
Equatorial West Africa and has also visited the Canary and 
Madeira Isles, Germany and England. His hobby is breeding 
fancy chickens and his garden is his chief recreation. He 
wants the class to know that Master Ronald, above mentioned, 
is coming to Princeton. 



'* Classmates of '92 : 

" Did any of you receive the mitten in public? Such was 
my experience. In the year 1896, while still somewhat in the 
' veal ' state as a preacher, I invited a certain damsel, newly 
graduated from college and under appointment to go out that 
fall to China as a missionary, to address my congregation one 
Sabbath evening. In the midst of her remarks she took oc- 
casion to lay the responsibility upon the membership at home of 
upholding the hands of the missionaries abroad. And in order 
to correct any possible impression that she was making an 
appeal for herself personally, she said, ' I don't want you to 
think that I am here on a dunning expedition.' I was so 
obtuse as not t*> understand for a time why a wave of laughter 
passed over the audience. I can simply add that this mitten 
was sufficient. However, it did not discourage me, for I now 
have ' the best helpmeet in the world,' who for a term of three 
years was Grand President of Delta, Delta, Delta, so that I 
have been known as the husband of Mrs. Dunning. I may also 



BIOGRAPHIES 99 

add, last but not least, there are three little Dunnings, one of 
whom is a candidate for Princeton. 

" With three cheers and a tiger, 

" S. G. Dunning. 
"Osborn, Ohio, October 24, 1906." 



ALBERT FROST EARNSHAW, A.M. 

Minister. Address, Chelmsford^ Mass. Unmarried. 

EARNSHAW studied at the Union Theological Seminary, 
N. Y. City, at Columbia and at the American School of 
Classical Studies, Rome. He travelled on the Continent in 
1896-97, and visited England in 1899. As a Congregational 
minister, he has filled charges at Phillips and Portland, in Maine. 
He is a Free Mason and belongs to the Princeton Club of New 
England, and to the Congregational Club of Lowell, Mass. 
He is just as earnest and modest a seeker after knowledge as 
ever, for he says, " If I have a hobby it is general information. 
I like to keep tab on what is going on in the world of thought 
and of affairs. So I strike too many scents to follow any one 
to the finish and I know no subject thoroughly. 

" At present I am living in a quiet New England village of 
Revolutionary antecedents, even as Princeton ; but I may be 
elsewhere when I get the Quindecennial Record, for like others 
of my profession, I am ' always roaming with a hungry heart.' 
(Cf. ' Ulysses,' as read to us by Prof. Winans in Senior year). 

" I own to thirty pounds more weight than when we graduated, 
and a few more gray hairs. Of the latter I have the fewer, I 
am sure, for ranking myself hitherto with that more discrim- 
inating part of the class whose numbers, alas, grow continually 
smaller. In other words, I follow Geo. Herbert's advice to the 
parson when it is ' Never exceed thyself ' and ' Be sweet to all ' ; 
but not when it is ' Get a sharp wife.' 



100 PRINCETON NINETY-TWO 

" One of my chief regrets for the past is that I did not get 
back in 1902, and one of my treasured hopes, that I shall be 
on hand in June, 1907, for the Quindecennial. 

" Deeply sensible of the high aim of the committee * to pro- 
long life and to encourage the pursuit of happiness,' I entertain 
a corresponding gratitude for the privilege of aiding in the 
enterprise by handing over for the widest distribution this full 
and veritable account of the career and emotions of a humble 
member of a renowned class. 

" Having thus served my class, my Alma Mater, and my 
fellow-man, I am, 

" Your much relieved classmate, 

" Albert F. Earnshaw. 
" Chelmsford, Mass., September 18, 1906." 



JOHN WILLIAM EASTON, A.M., E.E. 

Teacher. Business Address, Blair Academy, Blairstown, N. J. 

Residence, Blairstown, N. J. 
Married Elizabeth White, Cleveland, Ohio, November 22, 1898. 

Children, Katherine, b. November 12, 1903. 

OUR old friend Toughey came up with a good letter after 
much prodding. He was graduated from the Electrical 
School in 1894, was in Cleveland, Ohio from 1894 to 1898, and 
since then has been instructor in Physics and Chemistry at the 
Blair Academy, sending pupils to Princeton every year. In his 
travels he has believed in cultivating home products ; he says 
he has travelled about New Jersey chiefly, " for here one can 
travel many hours and accomplish only short distances." He 
is a member of the Chemistry Teachers' Club of New York, and 
his hobby is photography. C. P. Butler and John Van Ness 
occasionally visit Blairstown — Butler to visit his family, but 
" as he is not of a roving disposition, he sticks pretty closely 



BIOGRAPHIES 101 

to home. Butts is really a good preacher." Here is the rest 
of the letter: 

" Blairstown, N. J., November 13, 1906. 

" ' Send along that letter for publication ' has been coming 
to me frequently from both Mike and Wilkie, and so I yield to 
the inevitable and make my contribution to the Record. It is a 
difficult undertaking to make an interesting personal sketch of 
an uneventful career. Others, however, may have had a more 
varied experience and so can balance things up in the general 
report of our class history. 

" After securing the official document of graduation, I stuck 
to Princeton for two years of postgraduate work with Prof. 
Brackett in the department of Electrical Engineering. Geo. 
W. Betts, now a patent lawyer of some note, and Wm. Elmer, 
Jr., as report has it, Master Mechanic of the Pennsylvania 
Railroad, both men of our class, were also following the same 
line of work. Upon the completion of my graduate course in 
1894 I accepted an appointment as Instructor in Physics and 
Mathematics at Case School of Applied Science, Cleveland, 
Ohio, where for two years I looked after the Physics laboratory 
and assisted with the Freshman Mathematics. In 1896 the 
practical field of work offered its attractions and in the two suc- 
ceeding years I busied myself in chemical and electrical work 
with the Walker Electrical Manufacturing Co., of Cleveland. 
Then another change and September, 1898, witnessed my de- 
parture for Blairstown, N. J., to take charge of the department 
of Physics and Chemistry at Blair Academy — attacking again 
the educational problem, this time, however, along secondary 
school lines. 

" Here I am still — nine years in a prep, school devoting my 
energies to ' the kids,' and nine exceedingly pleasant years have 
they been. Located as we are among the hills of Northern 
Jersey, near the Delaware Water Gap, in a most beautiful 
country and with the added pleasure of working with laboratory 



102 PRINCETON NINETY-TWO 

equipments for science teaching equalled in few preparatory 
schools in the country, the work is thoroughly enjoyable. Sev- 
eral of our men have visited our school and they can tell of 
its beauty of location and of its equipment. 

" In November, 1898, Miss Elizabeth White of Cleveland, 
Ohio, came to Blairstown as Mrs. Easton and we are now living 
in the house which sheltered 'Amicus populi ' Butler (C. P.), 
'92, in the days of his infancy. We have one daughter, Kath- 
erine, three years of age. I hear of the men of our class fre- 
quently through the boys attending the Academy, but seldom 
see any of them. Some of you, however, may be called upon 
to make us a visit to act as judges in the various school contests ; 
so have your acceptance ready (all expenses paid). 
" Yours for Princeton and '92, 

" J. W. Easton." 



EDWARD DAVID ELLISON 

Lawyer. Office, 936 New York Life Building, Kansas City, Mo. 

Residence, 3709 Belleview Avenue, Kansas City, Mo. 
Married Mary W. Stone, Lawrence, Kan., December 5, 189 k 

Children, Emily Stone, b. ; d. Aug. 22, 1897. Elizabeth 

G., b. February 6, 1899- 

ED ELLISON is Lecturer on Constitutional Law and on 
Negotiable Instruments in the Kansas City School of 
Law, of which institution he is Secretary. He has lived in 
Kansas City ever since graduation. He belongs to the Uni- 
versity Club there and frequently sees DeLong, who he says 
" runs the club and a Trust Company." As a member of the 
Missouri Republican Club he has worked for that party, but 
has never held office. He has travelled through the New Eng- 
land States, Canada, Nova Scotia and Mexico several times. 
In his spare time his specialties are bridge and pool. 



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WILLIAM ELMER, Jr., E.E. 

Master Mechanic, Pittsburg Division, Pennsylvania Railroad. 
Business Address, P. R. R. Shops, Liberty Avenue and 28th 
Streets, Pittsburg, Pa. Residence, 5127 Center Avenue, Pitts- 
burg, Pa. 

Married Helen Gray, Beach Haven, N. J., September 12, 1906. 

FEW of us can realize the hard work, physical and mental, 
that underlies the interesting story the Babe so modestly 
tells of his advance to the position he now occupies. Summar- 
ized, here is his record: 1895, Electrical Engineer for the 
Trenton Iron Company; 1896, apprentice in the Meadows 
Shops of the P. R. R. at Newark; 1898, special apprentice in 
the Altoona Machine Shops of the P. R. R. ; 1900, General 
Foreman of Electric Car service, N. J. & S. R. R. at Atlantic 
City; 1901, Assistant Master Mechanic, P. R. R. Machine 
Shops at Altoona; 1903, Assistant Engineer of Motive Power 
P. R, R. Division, Altoona ; 1906, Master Mechanic, Pittsburg 
Division, P. R. R. The Hot Air Furnace is lighted by half 
a dozen of his incandescent contributions to knowledge. 

" My dear Mike: 

" After graduating from the Electrical School, Kep Hall 
of '93 and myself started in the Electrical Engineering and 
Contracting business in Trenton. There wasn't a very howl- 
ing demand for our services, but we gained some experience 
and declared a few dividends until I was offered a position 
as Electrical Engineer for the Trenton Iron Co. at a salary 
of $1500 per year. That looked very attractive, so I took 
the job. The immediate business in hand was the construc- 
tion of an installation on the banks of the Erie canal near 
Buffalo of an electric scheme for towing canal boats. It was 
to revolutionize the canal business and rejuvenate the moribund 



104 PRINCETON NINETY-TWO 

canal, but I notice the mules are still doing business. I 
afterwards learned that the whole scheme was a political one 
put forward to create newspaper excitement and induce the 
voters of the State to authorize the expenditure of $9,000,000 
for the benefit of the grafters. But the mile installation worked 
successfully and towed the boats all right. Anybody can buy 
the outfit cheap now. The next job at the Trenton Iron Co. 
was a series of experiments on the electric welding of steel 
wires. The new Brooklyn bridge was then under consideration, 
and it was thought that an improvement could be made on the 
screw couplings used in the first bridge. The problem given 
was to have 90 per cent, of the welds show 90 per cent, of the 
strength of the original stock, and after hundreds of experi- 
ments and nearly ruining my eyes, I was able to pronounce a 
weld good or bad at the instant it was made. The bad ones 
would be cut out and made over and the final result was that 
100 per cent, of the welds showed 95 per cent, of the strength 
of the original stock. At the end of my first year I resigned 
to begin my apprenticeship with the Pennsylvania Railroad. 
The Superintendent of Motive Power of the New York Division 
had been good enough to tell me at the end of my period of 
firing in the vacation of our Senior year, that any time I wanted 
to re-enter the service he would give me a job. So I applied 
for one and he laughed at me. He asked me what I was getting 
then and when I told him he said it would be ten years before 
I would be earning as much in the P. R. R. But I stuck to 
it, so he took me in at the Meadows Shops halfway between 
Newark and Jersey City, between the manure piles and the 
fertilizer factory, at five cents an hour. I went to work in the 
Erecting Shop, October 1st, 1896, and served a year. Then 
to the Machine Shop for a time with occasional periods of 
special duty, when I was in the drawing room or on the road. 
One was the designing of the electric fog bell at the 23rd 
Street Ferry ; another the test of a car equipped with an 



BIOGRAPHIES 105 

axle-driven electric light outfit; another the re-design of the 
Atlantic City Electric Railway Power Plant. A very interest- 
ing piece of work was the test of the Burlington & Mt. Holly 
Railroad, a seven-mile standard-gauge line, operating under 
steam railroad conditions. 

" On March 31st, 1898, I was tranf erred to the Altoona 
Shops as a Special Apprentice, in order to complete my course 
under the eyes of the officers who would later be responsible 
for my promotions. In the Fall of that year I was taken out 
of the shops and put on special duty by the Superintendent of 
Motive Power, who was chairman of the Master Car Builders' 
Association Committee on Couplers. I learned a lot about car 
couplers and collected a great deal of material for the Com- 
mittee's report. Later I made a report to the General Superin- 
tendent on the coaling facilities on the Pittsburgh, West Penn, 
Monongahela, C. & C. and Tyrone Divisions. I never went 
back to the shops again, for on January 14th, 1900, I was 
sent to Atlantic City to take charge of the electric railroad, 
my predecessor having died suddenly. That summer was a very 
busy and interesting one, as the railroad did the largest busi- 
ness in its history, and it was with real regret, mingled with 
joyful pride, that I left Atlantic City to go to Altoona on 
October 1st, 1900, as Assistant Master Mechanic of the Al- 
toona Machine Shops. It was very gratifying also to recall 
the prediction of my old Superintendent M. P. that it would 
be ten years before I was earning the salary I had received 
previous to beginning my apprenticeship. I had it back again 
in just four years. 

" The Altoona Machine Shops employed over 5000 men and 
turned out more than 100 repaired locomotives a month, besides 
manufacturing thousands of articles every year for use in other 
shops all over the railroad. Several new buildings were planned 
and erected and the experience gained has been of inestimable 
advantage in all my subsequent work. 



106 PRINCETON NINETY-TWO 

" On January 1, 1903, I was promoted to Assistant Engineer 
of Motive Power, P. R. R. Division, with headquarters at Al- 
toona, and during this period had charge of the design and 
construction of several important plants. The East Altoona 
roundhouse is the largest in the world and handles nearly 300 
engines a day. The coal wharf handles 40,000 tons of coal 
a month and the storage yard will hold 150 locomotives. The 
South Altoona Foundries are the latest expansion of the 
P. R. R. group of shops at Altoona, and the wheel foundry is 
the largest in the world. It turns out 900 car wheels a day. 
The iron foundry makes all the castings used by the railroad 
and the power plant is up-to-date in every respect. Two large 
pieces of work which were carried on simultaneously are the 
coal and ash handling stations at Denholm and Thorndale — one 
on the Middle and the other on the Philadelphia Division. At 
each of these points the railroad fans out from four tracks to 
twelve, and five trains in each direction can have the locomotive 
fire cleaned, front end and ash-pan cleaned, and take coal, water 
and sand at the same time. Over a thousand tons of coal a day 
is delivered to engines and the ashes are taken away by con- 
veyors running in tunnels underneath the tracks. 

" On February 1, 1906, I was promoted to Master Mechanic 
of the Pittsburg Division, having ten engine houses, numerous 
air-compressing and electric power plants, pumping stations 
and coal wharves to look after. There are 650 locomotives in 
service and 2300 men employed in my department. 

" On September 17th I was married to Miss Helen Gray at 
Beach Haven, N. J., where her father's summer cottage is 
located. A delightful wedding trip through Canada followed 
and at our apartment the latch-string will always be out and 
a bed ready for any deserving member of the good old class 
of '92." 



BIOGRAPHIES 107 



ALBERT S. ENGLISH 

OUR Nassau Herald said English was a lawyer. He left 
college in 1889. We know nothing more about him, and 
have not been able to find him. 



ALFRED EVANS 

Engineering. Office, Division Engineer's Office, New York State 
Canals, Syracuse, N. Y. Residence, Warners, N. Y. 

Married Lillian Byrnes, New York City, March 1, 1895. Children, 
James Frederick, b. January 28, 1896. 

A LFRED EVANS is still able to view things cheerfully. 
j[V. Asked whether he is married, engaged, or single, he 
replies "Why ask? Don't you remember my good looks? 
Caught March 1, 1895." And he has a son — " one masculine 
heir " he calls him. Professionally he is General Inspector of 
the State Engineer's Department, the State being New York, 
and he is also a " Gentleman of Leisure doing the poor down- 
trodden taxpayer " — the allusion being the State canals. His 
forensic reminiscence is brief but vivid : " I have addressed my 
country constituents upon the Great, Grand and Galorious 
principles of Republicanism twice. I still smell the odor of the 
cheering — suffered until I took a Russian bath." He has taken 
many parts in politics — " tax collector, school trustee, path 
master, three months unexpired term of village constable." 
But he is no more of an altruist than the law allows ; order is 
" Self, first ; Republicanism, second ; Party, still running." He 
travelled to Denver " after leaving Princeton for my health." 
In 1901-1902 he visited Cuba. He is waiting for cheap rates 
to Heaven. In the meantime he has lived mostly all over New 
York State, and he was, for a time, Chemist to the Portland 
Cement Works, Inspector of State Public Works and General 



108 PRINCETON NINETY-TWO 

Inspector of State Barge Canals. He is a Mason and an Odd 
Fellow. His chief exercise has been taken while serving as lead- 
ing pall bearer among his country friends. For exercise he 
recommends bending the elbow and saying " Here's to '92 — 
Let's have another." He has also taken a great fancy to 
Ping Pong. What is his hobby? "To write like Jesse Wil- 
liams, eat like Conwell, sing like Mike Bergen, dun, beg and 
plead like Wm. K. P." It is a thousand pities the Little Devil 
didn't have time to compose a letter for the Record. It would 
have been a joy. 

EVAN MORTON EVANS. B.S., M.D. 

Medicine. Office and Residence, 38 West 48th Street, New York 

City. 
Married Elizabeth Maverick Allen, Virginia, 1898. Children, none. 

EVANS studied at Edinburgh University and took his med- 
ical degree at Columbia (P. & S.) in 1895. He is At- 
tending Physician at the City Hospital, New York, and since 
1901 has been an Instructor in Medicine at Columbia. His 
hobbies are botany, natural history and music, and in spite of 
his reticence he confesses that he is " tickled to death to be 
alive." 

MARCUS STULTS FARR, A.M., M.S., D.Sc. 

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Teaching. Address, 12 Maple Street, Princeton, N. J. 

Married Luella Conover Bergen, Cranbury, N. J., October 24, 1894. 
Children, Vernon Boyd, b. July 20, 1895. James Frederick, 
b. October 21, 1898; d. February 24, 1902. James Frederick 
II., b. November 11, 1901. 

FARR is Preceptor in Geology and Curator of Vertebrate 
Paleontology at Princeton. He was Fellow in Biology 
for a year after graduation and took his Master of Science 



BIOGRAPHIES 109 

degree in 1893 ; then he went to Chicago as Fellow in Zoology 
at the University and earned his Master of Arts degree in 1894. 
Then for the next two years he was a graduate student at 
Princeton and in 1896 he proceeded to his doctorate of science. 
He then became Assistant in the Paleontological Laboratory, 
serving until 1898, when he went to Albany as Assistant Zo- 
ologist at the New York State Museum. In 1900 he came back 
to Princeton as an Assistant in Geology and in 1905 when the 
preceptorial system was put in he became a Preceptor in Ge- 
ology. With such a training it is not to be wondered at that 
Dr. Farr declares that his hobby is his work in general and 
vertebrate fossils in particular, and that he does not get much 
time for exercise or recreation. He has, however, been a mem- 
ber of Company L, 2d Regiment N. G. N. J., for the past six 
years. This company, be it known, is formed of Princeton citi- 
zens, has an armory of its own — the Casino that Joe Huston 
erected — and was raised, drilled and until recently commanded 
by Colonel William Libbey, who taught us what Historical 
Physical Geography we know. It is commonly known as 
" Bill's Army," and has a number of crack marksmen in it, 
one of them being Farr himself, who has been a member of 
the N. J. State Rifle Team for the past three years. In 1894 
he went with the University of Chicago expedition to South 
Dakota and Nebraska, and in 1901, 1902 and 1903 he headed 
the Princeton expeditions to Montana and Wyoming. He says, 
" My travels have not been extensive ; for an ' homme de f a- 
mille ' living expenses are high, salaries are low — and the walk- 
ing is poor." He never spoke a truer word. The titles of his 
contributions to knowledge are given in the H. A. F. At pres- 
ent he is working on Lower Eocene Mammals, and on Fossil 
Birds of Patagonia, the material brought back by the Prince- 
ton Patagonian Expeditions. 



110 PRIXCETOX NINETY-TWO 

MAX FARRAND, A.M., Ph.D., F.R.G.S. 

Teaching. Residence, Stanford University, California. Unmarried. 

THE Head of the History Department at Leland Stanford 
says that our prodding postals remind him of Marion 

Mills Miller's cards " Your oration is now due. Go to etc." 

Which shows how dilatory Max was even then; for the rest of 
us do not recollect having received so peremptory a reminder 
of engagements at the Old Chapel. Here is his present " ora- 
tion " : 

" Stanford University, Cae., October 24, 1906. 
" To the Members of the Class of '92 : 

" I'm a teacher by profession, a bachelor by force of circum- 
stances, and a fisherman through pure love of the sport. The 
last, I am forced to admit in this solemn hour of confession, 
has been the controlling factor in my life. The necessity of 
long summer vacations for the pursuit of my chosen sport led 
me into teaching; the greater freedom of university life induced 
me to try that rather than preparatory school work ; the rest 
was inevitable. 

" By a process of exclusion — some subjects were too hard, 
and others I didn't like — I chose History and Politics for my 
field. Two years of graduate study in Princeton and two years 
at Leipzig and Heidelberg were necessary by way of prepara- 
tion, and shortly after my return to this country in 1896 
Wesleyan offered to give me a trial. 

" Five strenuous years were spent in Middletown. Drinking 
was forbidden, dancing and card-playing were tabooed, and 
even smoking was frowned upon. But I kept sane by long 
camping and fishing trips in the summer. I worked hard, but 
work was a pleasure, because it was directed toward a definite 



BIOGRAPHIES 111 

end and one that was worth while. Gradually my interest cen- 
tered in United States History. 

" Then came an offer from Stanford. It was hard to go so 
far away, and the conditions were somewhat dubious. The 
decision to accept was determined largely by a conviction that 
had grown upon me through a chance remark of Woodrow 
Wilson's, that no man could understand the history of our 
country until he had learned to know the West. So I've thrown 
in my lot with the Pacific Coast, and even earthquakes have 
failed to make me regret it for a single instant. (Perhaps that 
is because I happened to be East when the big shake came a 
few months ago.) I've had to revise all my ideas of American 
history, and of a few other things as well. You can't cross this 
great country of ours — and I do so once or twice a year — 
without realizing that the West has been an all-powerful force 
in American development. 

" I'm a teacher by profession, and my work has resolved itself 
into two simple but very big propositions : — To save my stu- 
dents from the mistakes and defects of my own early training; 
and to help others get a little clearer insight into what has 
been the real development of American history. 

" Three other bachelors — all good fellows — have taken me 
into their company. We have a place of our own, a French 
chef in the form of a Chinaman, a cellar that is always stocked, 
and we live so well that, as a friend from the East remarked, 
' it is positively immoral.' 

" Not so very long ago, and just over the hills a few miles 
away, with a five ounce rod and number 14 coachman, I caught 
a three-pound trout. 

" Max Farrand." 

From 1896 to 1901 Max was Professor of History at Wes- 
leyan, and in 1901 he was called to Stanford. During the 
year 1905-1906 he was Acting Professor of History at Cornell. 



112 PRIXCETOX NINETY-TWO 

Fishermen are notoriously good mixers, and Dr. Farrand, being 
no exception, belongs to the University and Bohemian Clubs of 
San Francisco, the Princeton Club of New York, the Nassau 
Club of Princeton, the American Historical Association, and 
several local historical societies. He is also a Fellow of the 
Royal Geographical Society. For exercise he plays billiards 
and dodges earthquakes. Cornell helped him to dodge the big- 
one last year. His hobby is fly-fishing for trout and he has 
caught them in most of the good streams in the country; he 
spends his summers camping, tramping and fishing. The only 
'92 men he sees on the coast are Tommy Irvin and Al Lillev — 
and everyone in San Francisco who has seen Tommy and Max 
compare polls on the street declares the former the balder. 
There should be a hot contest when these two get next to Poet 
Denniston, Fred Moses, Pop Atkinson and other shining marks 
in the Eastern baldheaded row. Max does not mention Al 
Lilley's hair, but says he is the same good fellow at the Uni- 
versity Club that he was in college. By the way, examination 
of a picture treasured with care in our Archives shows that 
Max had enough hair to grow a beard, once. 

ROBERT FIELD 

United States Army. Address, care of War Department, Washing- 
ton. D. C. Residence, 1928 N St. N.W., Washington, D. C. 
Unmarried. 

POP FIELD with characteristic military modesty sent no 
response to the call issued for material for our Triennial 
Record, and has sent none for this. He is a very busy officer 
and completely absorbed in his profession. 

From the U. S. Army Register, from a letter by his father, 
the late Colonel Edward Field, '61, published in Professor 
Libbey's " Princeton in the Spanish War," and from data very 
kindly supplied by his mother, Mrs. Edward Field of Washing- 



M.. S. Farr 




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BIOGRAPHIES 113 

ton, we have been able to construct the following sketch of his 
career since lie quit making limericks for the Class and left 
college to serve his country: 

He entered the army in January, 1894, as a private in Com- 
pany II, 8th IT. S. Cavalry, and in due- time was promoted 
corporal and sergeant. After passing examination at Fort 
Leavenworth, he was commissioned a C ZA Lieutenant of the 14th 
Infantry in February, 1897, being stationed at Vancouver 
Uarracks, Portland, Ore. In the wint.er of '97 he- was ordered to 
Alaska on special duty, being stationed at Skagway and Dyea, 
and making the trip over the Chilcoot Pass. 

lb- remained in Alaska until the Spring of 1898. When 
w;u- was declarer! with Spain, he was ordered with his regiment 
(14th Infantry) to proceed to San Francisco and embark for 
the Philippine Islands. He sailed for the islands August, 1898. 
W.is on duly ah Cuartel Malate, near .Manila, until the breaking 
out, of the insurrection, February 4, 1899. He was engaged in 
this first, battle, commanding Company M of the 14th Infantry. 
Prom that lime until the end of the insurrection he was con- 
stantly on the firing lin* — promoted March, 1899, to 1st Lieu- 
tenant, 14th Infantry. Commanded stations in the towns of 
Bacoor and Emus, P. I. His service during this period of 
fighting was all under General Lawton, commanding our forces. 
At the battle of " Tapote Bridge," he was recommended by 
General Lawton for a brevet for gallant service, his work during 
that bailie being considered by General Lawton most gallant 
and efficient. 

He returned to the United States in 1900 with the Home 
Battalion, and took station at Fort Wayne, Detroit. In No- 
vember of that year he was ordered for duty as aide to General 
Elwell Otis, then commanding the Department of the Lakes, 
with headquarters at Chicago. In November, 1901, he was 
promoted Captain in the 5th Infantry, and went back to the 
Philippines in May, 1902. He returned to the United States 



114 PRINCETON NINETY-TWO 

in November, 1903, by way of the Suez Canal, and was stationed 
at Plattsburg, N. Y., the winter of 1903-4. In June, 1905, he 
was detailed to inspect the Virginia Military Institute, and in 
duly, 1905, to inspect the Connecticut Militia in camp at 
Nyantic, Conn. During the winter of 1906 he was detailed to 
inspect the armories at Albany and other cities of New York 
State; and the Spring of 1906 was spent in inspecting the 
militia organizations of Massachusetts. 

At the time of the San Francisco earthquake and fire he was 
ordered to the Pacific Coast on the Relief Service. On October 
1, 1906, he was ordered with his regiment to embark for Cuba, 
where he is still with the " Army of Pacification," at Sagua Pa 
Grande, commanding Company F, U. S. Infantry. 



H 



HARRY K. FREEMAN 

ARRY K. FREEMAN left college in 1889. We know 
nothing about him. 



JOHN MONTGOMERY GASTON, A.M 



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Minister. Residence, 5S2i Coral Street, E. Pittsburg, Pa. 

Married Harriet Gertrude Cramp, Crafton, Pa., December 81, 1895. 
Children, Marion Grosvenor, b. November 11, 1897. Jean 
Montgomery, b. June 17, 1902; d. April 8, 1904. John Mont- 
gomery, Jr., b. December 3, 1905. 

GASTON survived the Princeton Theological Seminary and 
at the same time got his A. M. from the college ; since 
then he has lived in Pittsburg continuously and has had three 
different charges in succession in that city. He has seen no 
military service — "'but have been married for eleven years!" 
Yes. for discipline there's nothing like it. Perhaps that cham- 
pion marble heart. Dr. Claude Arthur McWilliams, is right 



BIOGRAPHIES 115 

after all ! Gaston's hobby is a good horse. He writes as fol- 
lows: 

" On leaving the Seminary I came to the Smoky City to 
become pastor of a Presbyterian Church here. Some time after, 
at a social function in the Church parlors I spied a young lady 
who happened to be visiting some of the young ladies of the 
Church. I soon decided that if she was willing I was, the result 
being that she is now Mrs. Jno. M. After a very delightful 
pastorate in this Church of three years, I was called to the 
Hazelwood Church, this city, where I spent six years. Now I 
am in my third Church, all in the same presbytery. Next to 
old Princeton, Pittsburg is the best place on earth, although 
they say it is 'Hell with the lid off.' 

" We have a few Princeton men here, though not many of our 
class of '92. The world has dealt kindly with me and I am 
an optimist in my Philosophy and Theology. 

" I have a girl nine years old and a boy a little over one year, 
who is bound for Princeton ; but I suppose the present rules 
will exclude the girl. " Sincerely yours, 

" Jno. M. Gaston. 
" Friendship Avenue Presbyterian Church. 

" Pittsburg, Pa., Jan. 15, 1907." 

HERBERT BUDD GIBBY, A.M., M.D.I 

Physician. Office, 15 South Main Street, Pittston, Pa. Residence, 

225 Wyoming Avenue, West Pittston, Pa. 
Married Emma Bodner, Wilkes-Barre, Pa., September 7, 1904. 

Children, Helen, b. July 19, 1905. 

GIBBY was so busy cutting up people in Pittston that he 
nearly missed the last call. But finally he laid down 
his knives long enough to tell us that he studied medicine at the 
University of Pennsylvania and carried off a diploma in 1895, 



llti PRINCETON NINETY-TWO 

and hung his shingle, or whatever it is doctors hang, in Pitts 
ton. Surgery is his hobby and he has devoted himself more 
and mure to that branch of practice, He is surgeon to the 
Pittston Hospital, the L. V, H. R. and the 1.. & W. V. R, R. and 
is a member of the American Medical Association, and the Lu 
seme County Medical Society. Here is his Letter: 

•• Samuel Johnson hail a Boswell, and George Washington a 
Washington [rving to chronicle the interesting events of their 
lives, but alas, tor me, the entreaties and threats of your im 
portunate committee have compelled me in self-defense to write 
a short autobiography. 

M We are told that a man is only estimated at his true worth 
bv succeeding generations, so 1 shall endeavor to adhere closely 

to facts, and allow posterity to deal as it may see tit with the 

subject of this short sketch. 

"In the fall following his graduation from Princeton, this 
member of the Glorious Class of '98, in company with a half- 
dosen fellow classmates, began the study of medicine at the 
University of Pennsylvania, After three years of hard work 
he was graduated in 1895 with the much-coveted degree of 
M. D., and in this year also Princeton conferred upon him the 
degree of A.M. 

" After serving for one year as interne at tin- Pittston llos 
pita! he began the practice of medicine at Pittston, Pa., in the 
famous Wyoming Valley, the centre of the anthracite coal 
fields. lie was elected Attending Surgeon to the Pittston Hos 

pita! in 189*7, and has been eloselv associated with the Hospital 
work ever since. Two years later, after visiting the principal 

eities of Europe, he journeyed to Vienna, Austria, the Mecca 
of the medical students of the world, and here at the old Uni- 
versity, made famous by such men as Hilroth ami Kokitanskv, 
he pursued his medical studies for nearly a year. On his return 



HI r 0G RAP HIES in 

to America he resumed the practice of medicine at Pittston, 

when- lie has continued to Hi'- present date. 

" He was married in 1904 to Miss Emma Bodmer of Will.' 
Barre, and the following yn-r a daughter was born to them. 

" In pursuance of his special studies in surgery, in the summer 
of 1906 he visited Rochester, Minn., and spent jome time at the 
clinic of the May,'', at St. Mary's Hospital. 

"His tastes lean particularly to surgery. An estimate of 

what, In- has so far accomplished is more or less difficult. He 

has made mistakes, he has had some measure of success, but he 
i ru.ts that before he shall have reached the chloroforming age 
he may accomplish something for- the advancement of the noblest 

of all professions that shall he worthy of Princeton and the 

Glorious ('lass." 



JOHN 5TOUNG GRAHAM, M.S., Ph. J). 
Teaching. Address, University of Alabama. 

Married Isabella Hummel, Mount Vernon, X. Y ., July 5, 1900. 

Children, none. 

BROWNBREAD was Demonstrator in Jiiology at Prince- 
ton from 1892 to 1894, when he earned his Master of 
Science degree; then he went to the University of Munich and 
put, in three more years, at the end of which time he was given 
his I'h. J). The University of Alabama thereupon claimed him 
and has kept him as its Professor of Biology. He was abroad 
again in 1905. He belongs to the Tuscaloosa Club; and had 
he the time chess would be his hobby. He never sees a '9£ man 
in Alabama; has never held a political office; votes the Demo- 
cratic ticket, for State offices, but would be glad to vote for 
Roosevelt all the rest of his life. He has sent no letter. 



118 PRINCETON NINETY-TWO 

ROBERT D. GRAHAM 

Address (in 1892), 13 West 17th Street, New York City. 

THE following entry written in 1893 concerning Graham, 
who was a brother of Malcolm Graham, '90, is to be 
found in the Secretary's first address book : " Graham was in 
the class for a few months only ; I think in Junior year ; also 
I think he was a special. After graduation I wrote to him to 
ask if he wished to be enrolled as a member of the class. He 
failed to send any answer, so his name has been struck from the 
rolls. Signed, W. K. P." 

WILLIAM M. GRAHAM 

WE have no information about Graham. He left the 
Class in June, 1889, and his address then was Mont- 
gomery, Ala. 

EDWARD GRAVER, M.D. 

Physician. Residence, 5537 Fifth Avenue, Pittsburg, Pa. 

GRAVER is a doctor at Pittsburg. We have a registered 
letter receipt signed by him on February 11, 1907, but 
nothing else. 

ANDREW CALDWELL GRAY 

Lawyer. Office, 9th and Market Streets, Wilmington, Del. Resi- 
dence, Wilmington, Del. Unmarried. 

SENATOR GRAY took a special course at the Harvard Law 
School, and when he appeared last in our Record he was 
fresh from helping Hutch attend the annual convention of the 
Daughters of the Revolution at Washington, D. C. Since then 
he has settled down to the sad life of a Delaware lawyer, who 




J. Y. Graham 



A. C. Gray 





LeR Gresham 



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takes no exercise, and whose sole recreation is " looking forward 
to retiring " — whether eventually or every evening Andy doesn't 
say. He has taken but a small part in politics and has " never 
gotten any good out of it, for the party or self." He was on 
the staff of the Governor of Delaware from 1897 to 1901. His 
hobby is the " elevation of the masses," with the additional 
endeavor of " keeping a haughty distance above them myself." 
He is a member of the law firm of Ward & Gray, of Wilming- 
ton. 

" Wilmington, Delaware, January 22, 1907. 
" Dear Prentice : 

" I have received, for the past several months, a communi- 
cation from you regularly every morning, and I have delayed 
answering because it gave me such a feeling of pleasure 
and importance to realize that I should always find some mail 
awaiting me at my office. I am afraid, however, that if I delay 
longer your facile pen might write a letter for me for the Class 
Record. While I have no doubt it would be more interesting 
than anything I could put down, hampered by facts, at the 
same time I am afraid of your imagination. 

" I have really nothing to contribute to the Class Record, 
except the fact that I am still practicing law at Wilmington, 
where I started. The blank that you sent me for the statistics 
for the Record seems to have provided for even more than the 
events that have entered into my life. I sincerely trust that 
other members of the Class may be able to do better for you 
than I have. Please keep a copy of the Record for me. I will 
certainly be on at the reunion in June, unless an earthquake 
prevents. 

" Sincerely yours, 

" Andrew C. Gray." 



120 PRINCETON NINETY-TWO 



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C. ALBERT GRAY 

LL trace of Gray has been lost. His last address known 
to us was No. 228 121st Street, New York City. 



LEROY GRESHAM, A.M., LL.B., B.D. 

Minister. Address, Chapel Hill, North Carolina. 

Married Mary Jessie Rhett, Baltimore, Md., January 7, 1903. 

Children, Thomas Baxter, Jr., b. February 17, 1904. Francis 

Rhett, b. August 30, 1906. 



G 



RESH writes as follows : 

" Chapel Hill, N. C, Oct. 31, 1906. 



" My dear Prentice : 

" My history in brief since I graduated is as follows : I 
spent one year in postgraduate study at Princeton, and 
one at Johns Hopkins University in the department of His- 
tory and Political Science. Then, in the fall of 1894 I 
entered the University of Maryland Law School, graduating 
in May, 1896, with the degree of LL. B. I began the 
practice of law in Baltimore, having formed a partnership with 
Frank G. Turner. This partnership lasted about five years, 
and was dissolved by mutual consent. I continued to practice 
alone until the summer of 1903, when I determined to do what 
had been in my mind shortly after my graduation, viz., to enter 
the Presbyterian Ministry. Financial and other considerations 
led me to go to Richmond instead of to Princeton. In con- 
junction with the work in the Seminary I edited for two years 
the Union Seminary Magazine, a religious publication con- 
ducted by the faculty and students of the institution. I was 
graduated from the Seminary in May with the degree of B. D., 
and in June accepted a call to the Presbyterian Church at 



BIOGRAPHIES 121 

Chapel Hill, N. C. My work is very largely among the students 
of the University of North Carolina, which is located here. 

" I was married in January, 1903, to Miss Rhett of Balti- 
more, whose father came from Charleston, S. C. We have two 
future Princeton men ; their lung capacity will entitle them to 
seats of honor in the cheering section. 

" I have no recent photograph ; but send under separate 
cover the last one taken. 

" Faithfully yours, 

" LeRoy Gresham." 

CHARLES VAN DYKE GULICK 

Business. Business Address, 76 Nassau Street, Princeton, N. J. 
Residence, 18 Vandeventer Ave., Princeton, N. J. 

Married Emma Duryea, Blauenburg, N. J., Aug. 19, 1899- Chil- 
dren, none. 

CHARLIE GULICK is prospering on Nassau Street in the 
Upper Pyne Building, as purveyor of athletic goods and 
men's goods to the university at large. His store is the most 
popular dry resort in town, and is an attractive center of 
athletic interests and general college news. He belongs to no 
clubs, and hard work is his exercise and recreation. 

HENRY EWING HALE, Jr., M.D. 

Physician. Residence, 752 West End Avenue, New York City. 
Married Frances Hibbard Ward, Chicago, September 13, 1900. 

Children, Mary Folsom, b. March 18, 1902. Henry Ewing, 

b. October 12, 1906. 

HALE received his M. D. in June, 1896, from the P. & S., 
New York, since when he has been interne at the New 
York Presbyterian Hospital, interne at the Sloane Maternity 
Hospital, Demonstrator of Anatomy at the P. & S., Medical 



122 PRINCETON NINETY-TWO 

Assistant in Pediatrics at the Vanderbilt clinic, Medical Assist- 
ant in the Out-patient department of the Babies' Hospital, 
and Assistant Attending Physician at Randall's Island Hos- 
pital. He is a member of the N. Y. Academy of Medicine, the 
N. Y. and County Medical Societies, the Alumni Associations 
of the Presbyterian and Sloane Maternity Hospitals, the Quiz 
Medical Society, and he is Vice-President of the well-known 
male singing society, Musurgia. His writings will be found 
listed in the Hot Air Furnace. The Editors have not expur- 
gated the first sentence of Hale's letter, because they wish to 
give prominence to the glorious tribute it contains to those 
brilliant qualities which distinguish the make-up of this Record 
— this being their only chance. 

" 752 West End Ave., New York, N. Y., May 28, 1906. 
" Dear Committee : 

" Never before have I so longed for the style of Collins, the 
Hellenic accuracy of Prentice and the archaeological powers of 
Butler, for I see they are all called for in the joint letter re- 
cently received from these gentlemen, for the Glorious Class 
of '92. 

" The story of my life is simple. I think a wisely ordered life. 
My choice has been made not to live at highest pitch all the 
time. From October first to June first business has the first 
call. Every summer finds me away from New York, willing to 
do the little work that comes my way, but bent on enjoying to 
the full the woods, the mountains and water with my wife and 
children. Life is too short when spent this way, but shorter 
when Jack has no play. 

" My principal diversion during the winter is music. A few 
weeks ago I was for the third time elected Vice-President of 
Musurgia of New York, a chorus known to many Princeton 
men. 

" The busy life of our greatest city has not crowded out Re- 



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ligion from my soul. There is time for Church attendance and 
an active part in Sunday School work in nearly all of my 
weeks. 

" My advance as a physician has not been startling, though 
continuous. The medical rather than the surgical especially 
appeals to me. I find most congenial the work with the children 
and it is my hope, ere long, to do no other. 

" This letter, I know, is short. Whether it be too formal or 
stilted, I know not. This must be left to the Committee. 

" Yours for '92, 

" Henry E. Hale, Jr." 

FRANK HILLMAN HALL 

Lawyer. Business Address, 25 Broad Street, New York City. 
Residence, 115 Bentley Avenue, Jersey City, N. J. 

Married Alice Scudder, Jersey City, N. J., April 22, 1897. Chil- 
dren, Alice M., b. April 22, 1903. 

FISH received his legal training at the Law School of 
Georgetown University, D. C, and at the New York Law 
School. He is counsel to the Hudson County Park Commission. 
As a Republican he has worked, and worked for, the G. O. P. 
He belongs to several political clubs, to the Princeton Club of 
New York, to the Hackensack Golf Club and the Union League 
of Hudson County. He has delivered a few political speeches 
in his day, and says he has been received with applause or ridi- 
cule, according to the political color of his audiences. " From 
my experience," he writes, " I am satisfied that the Great Ameri- 
can Public lost a great orator when I retired as a public speaker. 
Still, there is the great Duffield to take my place ! " Fish is 
an altruist ; his hobby he believes is to try to make other people 
happy, and so he refuses to tell what he really knows about 
Duff and Peter Cook and Rufus Besson. " I realize this is a 
great chance. But if I am to exercise my ' hobby ' as set forth 



124 PRINCETON NINETY-TWO 

above I must keep mum. How could anyone be happy if we 
told all the gossip we know? I don't know what to say about 
myself, except that I am content. Am not rich and do not 
want to be. Have enough to live comfortably and expect al- 
ways to have enough. Am glad I am a member of the Glorious 
Class and know that to the associations among so many fine 
fellows I owe much of my happiness. Try to do right, don't 
always succeed, but am much happier when I do. Hope to meet 
the boys next June and find them all as well satisfied with what 
'92 has done for them as I am. 

" Sincerely, 
" Frank H. Hall, sometimes called Fish." 

Since the above was received and beautifully edited we have 
had a further communication from Fish to this effect : " Since 
handing in my ' memoirs ' I have become a member of the firm 
of Steele & Otis with name changed to Steele, Otis & Hall, of 
25 Broad St., N. Y. City. Now as to photograph. I find only 
one copy of my handsome visage remains in the possession of 
my fond wife. This you may have upon your solemn promise 
made over the body of Joe Huston's imitation corpse to return 
it forthwith in good order. Do you so promise? " Prentice 
promised. 

FRANKLIN H. HALLIDAY 

Politics. Business Address, Democratic League, 142 Market Street, 
Newark, N. J. Residence, 857 South 14th Street, Newark, 
N. J. 

Married Viola Dey, Princeton, N. J., April 21, 1892. Children, 
Hildegarde, b. September 12, 1902. 

HALLIDAY has been more or less active in the ranks of 
New Jersey Democrats ever since he left Princeton, al- 
though for some years he was engaged in the life insurance 
business. He has been Treasurer of the State Democratic 




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League and is Secretary of the Essex County Democratic 
League, besides being Secretary to Colonel Edwin A. Stevens of 
Hoboken. 

Here is his letter. It is a pleasure to learn that they are 
even monogamous in Newark. 

" Newark, N. J., Nov., 11, 1906. 
" Wm. K. Prentice, Sec'y. 

" My dear Kelly : — It is rather a difficult matter for an 
ordinary man to write a suitable answer to such a bright letter 
as our Class Committee sent out ; but as the Committee expressly 
state the letter must not be too long, nor too short, nor too 
serious, nor too frivolous, nor formal, nor stilted, it makes it 
easier — there is so little left for a fellow to write, especially if 
he follows the directions. I only followed part of the direc- 
tions about the photograph, and have sent a copy of my best 
looks. I only have one wife and child, so can not comply 
with your advanced request for a photo of my wives and chil- 
dren. We are still monogamous in Newark. It is not time yet 
for a story of my life. I need more time for that. My story 
isn't ready. I've only begun. It has been fifteen years of in- 
terruptions, limitations, mistakes and lots of them, but no lost 
time, thank God, and I have heart and hope enough to make 
a really good story before I get through. 

" I often think I would rather be an honor to the Class of '92 
than to have any gift of Heaven or earth ; and it is a satisfaction 
to know that no body of men have a more just appreciation of 
loyal effort than that same Class. 

" Faithfully yours, 

" Franklin H. Halliday." 



126 PRINCETON NINETY-TWO 



JOHN HUNTER HANNA, C.E. 

Engineer. Business Address, Capital Traction Co., 36th and M 
Streets, N. W., Washington, D. C. Residence, 1343 30th St., 
N. W., Washington, D. C. 

Married Jane Edwards Soaper, Henderson, Ky., November 18, 1896. 
Children, Nancy Pringle, b. December 25, 1898. William 
McAfee, b. January 16, 1902. John Hunter, Jr., b. Decem- 
ber 10, 1903. Robert Calloway Soaper, b. February 5, 1906. 

THE OLD LADY has been Assistant Chief Engineer and 
Superintendent of the Capital Traction Company of 
Washington since 1894. He says he hasn't accumulated wealth 
but has had his share of the other two essentials, health and hap- 
piness, and he hopes to keep it up. He also has three little 
shavers heading, of course, towards Princeton, aged five, and 
three and a half years, and eighteen months respectively. Their 
daddy is a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers, 
and the Washington Society of Engineers, and the Washington 
Golf Club — at which last he takes his recreation trying to play 
the ancient and honorable game. 



HOWLAND HANSON 

Minister. Address, 1227 Sixth Avenue, Des Moines, Iowa. 
Married Sadie C. Whited, Morrison, 111. Children, Hope, b. 1896. 

HANSON is pastor of the First Baptist Church, corner 
of 8th and High Streets, Des Moines, la. After leaivng 
Princeton he studied at the University of Chicago Divinity 
School, but took no degree. He regrets that he has not been 
back to Princeton since '92, and has thus in a measure lost 
touch with the Class and college. It seems like another world 
out in Iowa, he says, and one's energies and time are absorbed 



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in keeping pace with the hustlers. He has written several news- 
paper articles, among them a series dealing with the problems 
of child life, and also a work entitled " The Art of Spiritual 
Husbandry." He is a member of several boards of trustees of 
colleges, Baptist State conventions, etc. In the summer of 
1897 he made a trip to Europe, especially to the Mediterranean. 
His exercise and recreation are tennis, golf and preaching, and 
preaching is his hobby. He is a Modern Woodman and a 
member of the Equitable Fraternal Union, and of the Fraternal 
Reserve. The only '92 man he has seen in recent years is 
Biederwolf. 

" Des Moines, Iowa, January 7, 1907. 
" Dear Prentice: 

" You are justified in replying that I am no friend of yours. 
Uriah Heep was no more humble than I now am. But I really 
do not know how to answer your communications with reference 
to my ' biography and photograph,' for I have neither. 

" Since leaving Princeton I have been lost in these Western 
wilds, and have been back to New Jersey but once, although I 
have been among the Rockies and on to the Pacific Coast and 
intermediate lands of marvel. I went to the Divinity School of 
the University of Chicago and unlearned a lot of bad theology 
secured in Princeton Theological Library. No one is able to say 
what has taken its place. In 1892 and '93, while still a student, 
I went to a small Baptist church in Savanna, 111. There was a 
membership of 33, a scandal of immoral conduct against the 
man who preceded me, a church council which expelled him from 
the ministry, no property, and the gloom of despair hanging 
over all. Three months afterwards they broke ground for a 
new building and three months still later dedicated a property 
worth $10,000 with no bonded debt ever having been placed on 
the building. The membership was multiplied by four in the 
year and a half I remained in that town. 



128 PRINCETON NINETY-TWO 

" We moved into Chicago, where a similar work was accom- 
plished during the years 1894 to 1898. A building was there 
dedicated. Then in 1899 we moved to ' Beautiful Beloit,' 
where we remained until June of 1905. The work there was 
the usual kind needed in a church of about four hundred mem- 
bers. For the last eighteen months I have been pastor of First 
Baptist church in this city. We have a building worth $80,000, 
a membership of about seven hundred, the finest people that ever 
banded together in church fellowship, and are called the largest 
Baptist church in Iowa. The daily papers write me up on 
Monday mornings ; the latest clipping is here enclosed from this 
morning's paper. There are no sensations, but direct preach- 
ing against besetting sins, and the uplift of ideals. I write 
this last sentence fearing that clipping may suggest sensational- 
ism. But, while avoiding the sensational, we also seek to avoid 
stagnation. 

" I have married a wife whose reputation as a minister's wife 
is in every particular perfect. We have a ' little girl ' who has 
now become our big daughter of eleven years of age. Her 
name is Hope, and she has the misfortune of not being like her 
mother. But she is the exact reproduction of her father in 
looks and disposition. Barring these two handicaps she bids 
fair to rival the finest of daughters who used to set ' our hearts 
aglow ' in the days when '92 ruled Princeton. I hope for the 
pleasure some day of escorting her through the campus, thus 
visiting upon the grandsons the same sort of stage fright I 
suffered as their grandsires led their mothers among the elms 
in front of Nassau. 

" Well I have rambled along for these several lines without 
any definite notion of what you desire. But I know what you 
deserve. As the various letters, cards, etc., came, I found my 
conscience continually saying, ' Kelly deserves an answer in 
return for his courteous, friendly, faithful and manly appeals 



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for class spirit.' Silence has seemed to me the most appro- 
priate attitude for myself. 

" Now as to photograph, I once had one — that is, it seems to 
me that I think that I once had one. Or, to put it more 
seriously, the only one I now have is in the hands of some Des 
Moines newspaper. If I can find it I will forward it to you. 

" Wishing you well and the Class of '92 prosperity during 
this year, I am, sincerely yours, 

" Howland Hanson." 



WILLIAM HARRIS, Jr., A.M. V 

Missionary. Address, Chieng Mai, Siam. 

Married Cornelia H. McGilvary, Canton, China, November 3, 1897- 
Children, Christina Butler, b. May 1, 1904. 

CHUCK was graduated from the Princeton Seminary in 
1895, and sailed for Siam, via Europe. He travelled 
in China in 1897, and expected to be in America at the time of 
our decennial, but was unfortunately hindered. He visited 
Princeton in 1903, and returned to Siam a year later via Japan 
and China. He is principal of The Prince Royal's College at 
Chieng Mai, Treasurer of the Mission, Pastor of the Maa 
Dawk Dang Church, and Hon. Librarian of the Chieng Mai 
Public Library, the upbuilding of which is his hobby, and which 
he founded in 1899. We had not been able to get replies to 
our circular direct from him when this went to press, and got 
from his brother, Professor Walter Harris of Princeton, the 
following account of his work: 

" Will is working hard on his boys' school in Chieng Mai. 
Very early in his career he began to realize that the best results 
could only be obtained by training up teachers taken from 



130 PRINCETON NINETY-TWO 

among the native boys, consequently almost his entire time has 
been devoted to teaching and organizing. The quarters soon 
proved entirely too small and Will set himself the task of plan- 
ning a boys' school which would be large enough to meet the 
ever-increasing needs, and provide for the education of teachers 
and ministers. 

" Through the liberality of relatives, friends and classmates, 
he has succeeded in raising about $9000 towards his school. 
With the first money obtained he was fortunate enough to 
secure a four-sided tract, almost square, containing about ten 
acres, convenient to the city and well located. The various 
school buildings are to be located around the edges of the tract, 
leaving the central part open for playground and lawn. The 
William Allen Butler Recitation Hall was the first building 
started, at the dedication of which the Crown Prince of Siam 
was present and took an important part in the exercises, laying 
the cornerstone himself. He complimented the Mission on its 
work, and expressed himself as in hearty sympathy with the 
school, which he was pleased to name the Prince Ro} r al's College. 

" Will's first reverse came in the collapse of the Recitation 
Hall during a storm. Good friends came forward with the 
funds, and by this time a new building is ready for occupancy. 
The next building to be undertaken will be a combined dormitory 
and commons. He says in his last letter : ' There is no doubt 
but what this school ought to be an exceedingly important one, 
especially as there is no other mission in the region. The people 
are friendly to our work, and the demand for an English educa- 
tion is increasing very rapidly. Of course the main object of 
the school, which we always keep in mind, is the training of our 
Christian boys to become useful Christian men.' " 

Since then, we have heard from Will himself: "For the 
Record I really haven't anything either brilliant or startling 
to write, and I presume it is too late now anyway. The prin- 



W. Harris, Jr 




C. D. Hart 



H. C. Havens 




C. W. Hillter 






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cipalship of this Boys' School, and the finances of the Mission 
keep me humping, besides which I have a Church twelve miles 
away, and the charge of a Library which I started some years 
ago for the foreign residents, and which has grown very 
satisfactorily. I send my love to the Class. I often wish 
I could see them once more. But my chances of ever attend- 
ing a reunion again seem to be dwindling with each successive 
year." 

CHARLES DELUCENA HART, A.M., M. D. 

Physician. Address, 1317 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pa. Un- 
married. 

HERE is a prompt and breezy letter written from Phila- 
delphia : 

" 1317 Walnut Street, 

"Philadelphia, May 24, 1906. 
" Dear Kelly : 

" If you want the story of my life, here goes. After graduat- 
ing from our glorious class, I travelled for a year in the Ear 
East and India, and in the autumn of '93 began the study of 
medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, where nothing hap- 
pened except hard work. I stopped, however, long enough to 
go up to Princeton to get in line for the last batch of A. M. 
degrees that were handed out to our class. I need not mention 
the fact that I was accompanied by many members of the class 
who had also distinguished themselves by their studious habits 
while at Princeton [about fifty in all. — Eds.] 

" After graduating from the Medical School in '97 I was for 
two years resident physician at the Pennsylvania Hospital, and 
a few years after leaving there was appointed chief to the Out- 
patient Department of the Hospital, which position I still hold. 
Varied by occasional short trips to different parts of the world 
in order to quiet my insatiable desire for sightseeing, I find that 



132 PRINCETON NINETY-TWO 

the years roll quietly by — a circumstance which has been noted 
in their own cases by more than one Philadelphian. Some four 
or five years ago I became interested in criminology, possibly 
prompted by my experiences at the U. of Pa., and was, fortu- 
nately for myself, appointed inspector of the Eastern State 
Penitentiary, and have found the work most interesting. Re- 
cently I was put on the Board of County Prisons, and so have 
a large field for observations. 

" John Pendleton and Alfred Riggs say it is a cinch and that 
now when they commit their crimes, they come to Pennsylvania 
for the purpose. To all those who care to read, be it known 
that I am in the best of health, weigh over 200 lbs., and am 
looking forward with the greatest interest and pleasure to our 
coming reunion in '07, when we can all get together and ex- 
change the stories of our lives with more detail than is possible 
here. With best of luck to all '92 men, I am, 

" Faithfully yours, 

" Charles D. Hart." 

Redney has forgotten to add that for two years he was a 
ward committeeman of the 8th ward of Philadelphia, and has 
worked for the City Party in the interests of good government, 

his sentiments being thus tersely expressed : " To H with 

the grafters ! " — a phrase replete with clearness, force and 
beauty. He has held office as inspector of the Eastern State 
Penitentiary, and is also Inspector of Prisons, and thus finds 
great opportunity for the cultivation of his hobby — crimi- 
nology. He is a member of the Philadelphia Club, the Racquet 
Club, Princeton Club and Penelyn Club and the Nassau Club 
of Princeton. He sees Woods, Mitchell, Mike Bergen, Gray, 
the Riggs, Charlie Rieman, and John Pendleton, and reports 
that they are all " exceptionally prosperous." 



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HAYWARD A. HARVEY 

Business. Residence, 21 Clarendon Place, Orange, N. J. 

DOC HARVEY has not responded in any manner to our 
repeated requests for some reply to our circular and 
letters. 

HENRY CLAY HAVENS, A.M. 

Teacher. Residence, Lawrenceville, N. J. 

Married Anne Elizabeth Swain, Allentown, N. J., June 18, 1902. 
Children, Paul Swain, b. September 19, 1903. 

" Lawrenceville School, 

" Lawrenceville, N, J., October 22, 1906. 
" My dear Kelly : 

" Why should I be importuned for a photograph to be put 
in any Class Record, when in that persistent circular dispatched 
to us long-suffering people, it was specially requested that only 
such reproductions as were 'fit to print' should be sent? 
Everybody knows I never had one of that sort. 

" Nor have I anything of vital interest to record concerning 
myself. No checkered career has been mine since the days when 
we sequestered. I have not, like Duff and others, been called to 
thunder forth in legislative halls ; nor yet like Howard Butler 
to set up mosaics for the Sultan of Turkey. Still, upon leaving 
college I did spend more or less of the ensuing three years in 
wandering at will over the land where the Princeton expedition 
has since found fleas, curios and archaeological honors, in 
varying ratio, probably, but certainly in the order named. 

" Climbing cedars of Lebanon, the Mount of Olives, and the 
pyramid of Cheops — ' Mr. Chops,' as the guide said — were all 
easier, as the sequel proved, than climbing the road to fortune; 
for after three years with headquarters at Beirut, I was but 



134 PRINCETON NINETY-TWO 

little better off, financially, than a certain well-known character 
of antiquity, when, like him, I determined to ' arise and go to 
my father.' 

" This was in August, 1895. In November of the same year 
— the only November of my life that I recollect spending in 
any other way than in school work — I was about to join the 
throng of seekers after philological honors and Ph. D.'s in 
a German University, when argument, partly verbal in nature 
and partly not, was brought to bear, resulting in my coming 
to Lawrenceville. Therefore, I never became a Fuclis, nor ever 
saw the inside of a German University until, in 1902, a portion 
of my summer vacation was spent at Heidelberg. 

" That, by the way, was my wedding trip. 

" Five years before I had spent a summer in France, in 
study, one evident result of which was the deepening of the 
conviction that the time at command was only too brief for the 
purpose I desired to accomplish. 

" Those vacations were ' graund days,' however — second only 
in their absorbing nature to my last one (1906), which was 
spent in superintending the erection of a house which, at the 
date of writing, I hope soon to occupy with my wife and boy. 
The boy is now three years old and heading for Princeton when 
his day shall come ; where I trust he may find as mates, some at 
least, who shall be sons of those whose memory of old and whose 
present acquaintance are cherished by 

" Yours very truly, 

"Henry C. Havens." 

For two years Havens was Associate Principal and for one 
year Principal of the Preparatory Department of the Syrian 
Protestant College at Beirut. He has been a full master at 
Lawrenceville since 1901. He is a Phi Beta Kappa man, with 
a penchant for genealogy in a mild form, having anciently 
emanated from the Roger Williams Baptist Community. 



BIOGRAPHIES 135 



CLARENCE WINANTS HILLYER 

Living in Paris. Address, Care Harris & Towne, 258 Broadway, 

New York City. 
Married Frances Nelson, June, 1892. Children, Clive Nelson, b. 

June, 1895. 

HILLYER writes briefly from Paris that at present he 
has no business nor home address, and has done nothing 
worth mentioning since leaving Princeton. " I should be 
pleased to expatiate further if I could with truth." His 
grandfather, the late Garret E. Winants of Bayonne, N. J., 
left a large estate, to the care and management of which, we 
understand, Hillyer, as executor and trustee, has devoted all 
his time and attention. 



CASPAR WISTAR HODGE, A.M., Ph.D. 

Teacher. Residence, Princeton, N. J. 

Married Sarah Henry, Princeton, N. J., November, 1897. Children, 
Lucy Maxwell, b. March 5, 1902. 

WIS studied at Heidelberg and Berlin, and received the 
degree of Ph. D. from Princeton in 1894. For two 
years he was instructor in Philosophy at Princeton, then for 
one year Associate Professor of Ethics at Lafayette. Since 
then he has been Instructor in Dogmatic Theology at the 
Princeton Theological Seminary. He writes as follows : 

" You ask for a letter telling all about myself. I believe 
nothing of importance to tell has occurred since the last Record, 
the date of which I forget. But I take this opportunity to 
express my best wishes for all members of '92. 

" Yours ever, 

" Princeton, May 29, 1906." " C. Wistar Hodge. 



186 PRINCETON NINETYrTWO 

SHEPPARD ROMANS, Jr. 

Life Insurance. Office, Prosser & Homans, 180 Broadway, New 

York City. Residence, Englewood, N. J. 
Married Loraine Eleanor Yandt rpool, Newark, N. J., April i.">, 

1001. Children. Loraine K leanor, I). November 25, 190S. 

Sheppard, Jr., l>. July 28, 1 905; d. November 28, L906. 

SHEP is in the insurance business. He has never held an\ 
political office, anil always votes tin' Republican ticket. 

He belongs to the Englewood Golf and Field Club, the Engle- 

wood Club and the Princeton Club of New York. He has sent 
no letter for publication. 



,1. FREDERICK HOSFORD 
Residence, Kinderhook, X. Y. Unmarried, 

FRED began the Library School course at the Albany 
Library; but on the failure of his health, returned to his 

home and is livina there in retirement. 






ROBERT POLLOCK HOWIE, A. M. 

Minister. Residence, Pleasant Grove, N. J. 

Married Rebecca Lippincott Wetherill, Jobstown, Pa., February 

If). 1900. Child ten, Marion Burton, b. January :>, 1Q01. 
Thomas Wetherill, b, January 28, 1902. James Alexander, 
1>. October si. 1908, 

HOWIE makes a clean breast of his career in the follow 
Ing letter: 

" Pleasant Geove, X. J., October 81, 190(5. 
"As you know, tin' beni of my mind was serious and my long 
face indicated that I was bent on the Sister Institution; and. 



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therefore, I was placed under the loving care of its Professors 
for three years' instruction and careful training. In '95 I 
left the company of many select ones of '92. There in our 
club was ' Sinbad ' Wight and his brother Van Dyke, Bieder- 
wolf, Parker, Symmes. I tell you, '92 kept things lively in the 
sacred place, for R. P. D. Bennett, and ' Bieder ' were a ' whole 
team.' Smiley and Sam Huston, Bixler, Butler C. P., Gaston, 
Harris, Hodge, Mogel, the Mudges, Van Ness, were, along with 
several P. G.'s, a gallant representation for three years to keep 
up the Spirit of '92. It was a lively class in Seminary, and the 
Faculty, I believe, were glad to get rid of us. 

" I went to England and joined the English Presbyterian 
Church, and what is laughable, they said I was too much of a 
Yankee and I concluded to go back to the Western Land, and 
after supplying for a year in Columbus, N. J., I left for 
Nebraska, and resided for two and a half years in Ruskin, and 
drove my ' broncho ' over the prairies every Sunday to a neigh- 
boring charge — Deshler. I left there for Hansen, Nebraska, 
and ministered to this people for two and a half years and left 
to come East. I have been in Jobstown, N. J., since and am 
entering upon this charge at Pleasant Grove, N. J., where I 
hope the members of the class will feel free to call at any time. 

" In 1900 I married and have three children. I enclose a 
photograph of my countenance. 

" Yours of '92, 

" Robt. P. Howie." 

Howie says he is an independent in politics ; and like Andrew 
Carnegie, believes in Peace, so has had no military service to 
boast of. He loves horses, but his chief recreation is entertain- 
ing the (his) rising generation. While in Nebraska he ran 
across Dr. Van Dyke Wight, President of Hastings College, 
and once saw " Josie Hoffman " in Lincoln and called at his 
office. Joe Mayhew was " as good as gold," played the organ 



138 PRINCETON NINETY-TWO 

in a church, of course, and incidentally was medical adviser to 
the University of Nebraska's football team. Lately Howie has 
seen the Rev. J. E. Sackus Symmes and says the latter has a 
good story on Joe Huston and the celebrated " corpse " in- 
cident. 

ARTHUR BAIRD HUEY 

Lawyer. Business Address, 602 Commonwealth Building, 12th and 
Chestnut Streets, Philadelphia, Pa. Residence, 4117 Walnut 
Street, Philadelphia, Pa. 

Married Ellen Cadwallader Smith, Philadelphia, Pa., June 6, 1900. 
Children, none. 

HUEY studied law at the University of Pennsylvania. He 
is a Republican, has horses for a hobby, and loves riding 
and golf. He is a member of the Union League, the Lawyers' 
Club, the Merion Cricket Club and the Loyal Legion. 



GEORGE AUGUSTUS HULETT, A.M., Ph.D. 

Teaching. Residence, 2 Murray Place, Princeton, N. J. 
Married Dency Minerva Barker, Colorado Springs, Col., August 
15, 1901. Children, infant daughter, deceased. 

HULETT remained in Princeton as an Instructor in Chem- 
istry until 1896, when he went to Leipzig, and in 1898 
obtained his Ph. D. magna cum laude. From 1899 to 1905 he 
was Instructor and then Assistant Professor of Physical Chem- 
istry at the University of Michigan. In 1905 he was recalled 
to Princeton as Assistant Professor of Physical Chemistry. 
He has made a reputation for himself as a physical chemist, and 
most of the results of his researches have been published in the 
Zeitschrift fiir Physikalische Chemie, the Zeitschrift fur An- 
organische Chemie, the Journal of the American Chemical So- 
ciety, the Physical Review, and the Transactions of the American 



BIOGRAPHIES 139 

Electrochemical Society. A full list is given in our Hot Air 
Furnace. He is a member of the American Chemical Society, 
the American Electro-technical Society, and the American Phys- 
ical Society. On the side, he is one of Princeton's few Faculty 
expert golfers. Last year he was appointed a member of the 
U. S. Assay Commission. Here is his letter : 

" The questions asked by our committee so thoroughly cover 
the ground of one's activities that, in my case, there is little to 
add. Perhaps this might be a good place to express a regret 
that I have often felt — the regret that I missed the freshman 
and sophomore years with the class of '92. Although I was 
here as assistant in chemistry until 1896, that was quite different 
from being with the class, even though it had its very good side. 

" After studying in Germany, I had the good fortune to be 
connected with the University of Michigan, and found there 
much of interest. It was a pleasure to meet a number of 
Princeton men who were taking advantage of the exceptionally 
good professional schools of the University, and undoubtedly 
many more would go there if Princeton better understood the 
opportunities and life at Michigan. Teaching the mixed classes 
was an interesting experience — the young ladies do most excel- 
lent work, and seem very much in earnest ; but with all the 
pleasant work at Michigan, you can readily understand that I 
was quite ready to come back to Princeton, and I hope that '92 
men will not fail to call at the Chem. Laboratory when they are 
back home, and see what a laboratory of Physical Chemistry is 
like. 

" Sincerely, 

" G. A. Hitlett." 



140 PRIXCETOX NINETY-TWO 

CURTIS GRUBB HUSSEY 

Looking for a job. Business Address, 005 Maehesney Building, 
Pittsburg, Pa. Residence, 308 Cedar Avenue, Allegheny, Pa. 
Unmarried. 

CURTIS balked hard at both a letter and a photograph — 
what kind of a letter was wanted? What was he to say? 
Was the photo wanted for a Princeton Rogues' Gallery? How 
could he be allowed to spoil the artistic features of the Record 
by the insertion of his own? and so forth. But the prodding 
postals did the trick. He was a member of the late firm of 
Curran & Hussey, and is president of the Hussey Steel Com- 
pany, and secretary and treasurer of the Electrical Equipment 
& Supply Company. In 1898 he enlisted in the 18th Infantry, 
Pennsylvania National Guard, was promoted to a second lieu- 
tenancy in May, 1901, and became first lieutenant in December, 
1902. In June last he was made a Battalion Adjutant. Hus- 
sey is a prominent Mason and clubman and is on the rolls of the 
following organizations : Crescent Lodge, No. 576, F. & A. 
M., the Dusquesne, the American Republican, and the Univer- 
sity Clubs of Pittsburg, the Allegheny Country Club of 
Sewickley, Pa., the Princeton Club of Western Pennsylvania, 
the Princeton Club of Philadelphia, the Princeton, Strollers, 
and L T niversity Clubs of New York. 

" Allegheny, November 9, 1906. 
" To the Members of the Class of 1892 : 

" In the fifteen years since graduation I have been connected 
with several different business enterprises. Last January I sold 
out my interest in the business I was in, and since then have been 
taking life easy and having a good time. Business and pleasure 
have furnished the excuse for many very pleasant trips in the 
last fifteen years, among which might be mentioned one to 



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Europe, two to the Pacific Coast, and one to the Canadian 
Rockies. 

" The last named was a bear hunt in the ' Great Bend of the 
Columbia River.' ' I came, I saw,' but I did not ' conquer,' 
as my aim was not good enough. 

" I had a good time, however, which was the main object of 
the trip. 

" Early in October of this year I went down to Harrisburg 
as a member of the provisional regiment from the Second 
Brigade of the Pennsylvania National Guard, to the dedication 
of Joe Huston's new thirteen million dollar capitol. Joe's all 
right. Every '92 man should be proud of Joe and his capitol. 

" Good luck to all. My address is always the same — 308 
Cedar Avenue, Allegheny — where the latch string is always out 
to the members of '92. " Faithfully yours, 

" Cuetis Grubb Hussey." 



JOSEPH MILLER HUSTON, A.M. 

Architect. Business Address, Witherspoon Building, Philadelphia, 
Pa. Residence, Lehman "Lane, Germantown, Pa. 

Married Mathilde MacGregor, Louisville, Ky., October 8, 1901. 
Children, Judith MacGregor, b. August 21, 1902. Craig, 
b. August 16, 1904. 

" And it was at this point that Corpse Huston made the awful discovery 

that there was a " 

O. Washington's Last Pants. By W. W. Smith. 

JOE has lived in Philadelphia and has practiced his profes- 
sion there ever since graduation. He was abroad in 1898 
and 1905, and also in 1899-1900, when he went around the 
world in the interests of his architectural education, for he still 
holds to his undergraduate theory about architecture being 
" literature in stone." Among Joe's most successful creations 



142 PRIXCETOX XIXETY-TWO 

have been the Press Temple at Philadelphia's National Export 
Exposition in 1899, the celebrated Court of Honor at the 1898 
Peace Jubilee at Philadelphia, the Witherspoon Building, at the 
dedication of which Duff was not permitted to use " Scotch 
Granite," and the State Capitol at Harrisburg, of which 
descriptions have been published in the newspapers. Joe also 
assisted in drawing plans for the new Pennsylvania Railroad 
Station at Broad Street, and he designed the beautiful Hall of 
the Keil Memorial at Mercersburg Academy, which was dedi- 
cated in 1900. Besides the elaborate decoration, in the shape of 
frescoes, glass, carving, mosaics, etc., which characterizes this 
hall, it is specially remarkable as containing on its ornamental 
pilasters the most complete collection of university shields in 
America. The shields of foreign universities were donated by 
friends and alumni. Joe also designed the Majestic Hotel, 
Broad Street and Girard Avenue, Philadelphia. His designs 
for the State Capitol were on exhibition at Bailey, Banks & 
Biddle's in 1902. and the X. Y. Mail and Express of July 12 
of that year contained a detailed and illustrated account of the 
building, and the Philadelphia Xorth American of September 
28, 1902, contained a double page drawing and description of 
it. Sam Huston has recently copyrighted and issued a beauti- 
fully gotten up pamphlet guide and description of this mag- 
nificent edifice. 

A new magazine called The Silver Lining appeared in 
March, 1902, with the first of a series of articles entitled 
" Types of Success," Joe being the subject of the initial num- 
ber. The demand for this magazine was so great that a second 
edition had to be issued. Joe is still an orator. He had the 
privilege of introducing the celebrated Captain Richmond P. 
Hobson, U. S. N., when the latter lectured on " The Nation 
and the Navy," at the Kensington Presbyterian Church in Phil- 
adelphia, back in 1902. He also delivered the oration at the 
unveiling, in 1900, of the tablet to the Revolutionai-y Soldiers 



BIOGRAPHIES 143 

buried in Washington Square, Philadelphia, and after his return 
from his round-the-world trip he gave an illustrated lecture 
before the Philadelphia Yacht Club, December 15, 1900, on 
" Expansion." Joe does not state what part he has taken in 
politics, though he tells us he has never held office and votes the 
Republican ticket. His hobby is the " University of Men and 
Events." He is a member of the Union League, the Undine 
Boat Club, the Germantown Automobile Club, the Manheim and 
Germantown Cricket Clubs, and the Princeton Club. He also 
belongs to the New York and the Lotos Clubs of New York 
City. 



SAMUEL CRAIG HUSTON, A.M. 

.Ministry. Address, Witherspoon Buildings Philadelphia, Pa. Un- 
married. 

IT has been difficult for the Editors to classify Joe's brother. 
Sam says of himself that his occupation is " lecturing, 
preaching, writing, investing, travelling, and passing a little 
time and money away in the interests of the Presbyterian His- 
torical Society, and the Pennsylvania Historical Society." 

After leaving Princeton he studied at Edinburgh and Oxford. 
In 1896 he was called to the Chambers-Wylie Presbyterian 
Church at Philadelphia. In 1901 he went to the Tompkins 
Avenue Congregational Church of Brooklyn. In 1905 he went 
abroad on his third trip, and since his return has resided at 
Philadelphia. His hobby is " philosophical observations on 
the subject of humanity." He is the author of " The Satiated 
Age," being a study of our times, published in the Century. 



144 PRINCETON NINETY-TWO 

FRANK M. HUTCHINSON 

Residence, 245 Broad Street, Sewickley, Pa. Unmarried. 

HUTCHINSON is trying to keep out of debt supporting 
an automobile. He was for a while an assistant sales- 
man with La Belle Steel Company of Allegheny, Pa., but golf 
and automobiles were too absorbing. He spends his winters at 
Pasadena, Cal., and during the summer of 1905 travelled in 
China and Japan ; but a fellow can't do much of this when he 
has a machine to look after. 

WILLIAM B. IRISH, M.D. 

Physician. Business Address, 127 North Highland Avenue, Pitts- 
burg, Pa. Residence, 6906 Penn Avenue, Pittsburg, Pa. Un- 
married. 

PAT IRISH studied medicine at the Jefferson Medical Col- 
lege of Philadelphia, where he obtained his degree. 
He says he has travelled during the last ten years from his 
residence to his office and back, but has not ventured off that 
straight and narrow road. Politically he is a Republican and 
cultivates no hobbies. Mason and McCune he sees frequently, 
but the only gossip he knows about them " will not bear publi- 
cation." Pat is one of the vice-presidents of the Western Penn- 
sylvania Princeton Club, a member of the American Medical 
Association, the Pennsylvania State Medical Society, the Alle- 
gheny County Medical Society, and the Pittsburg Academy of 
Medicine. 



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BIOGRAPHIES 145 



THOMAS SMITH IRVIN 

Office, 1129 McAllister Street, San Francisco, Cal. Residence, 2153 
Pacific Avenue, San Francisco, Cal. Unmarried. 

TOMMY IRVIN has not been heard from since the San 
Francisco earthquake, though Al Lilley has seen him 
once. His brother Richard, in '90, tells us that up to that time 
Tommy was ranching and mining in California, and during the 
San Francisco fire did patrol duty in the city. He belongs to 
the University Club of San Francisco. 



R. S. JAMISON 
Banking and Mining. Address, Deadwood, S. D. 
Married Emma Patrick, Denver, Colo., September 8, 1904. Chil- 
dren, none. 

UNTIL 1895 Jamison was civil engineer at Greensburg, 
Pa., from 1895 to 1898 he was a civil and mining 
engineer at Seattle, Wash. Since then he has been located 
at Deadwood in mining engineering, banking, and promoting. 



HENRY LANG JENKINSON 

Salesman for American Oil Supply Co. Business Address, Lafay- 
ette Street, Newark, N. J. Residence, 57 Avon Avenue, 
Newark, N. J. 

Married Mary Elizabeth Dey, Rahway, N. J., June 28, 1893. 
Children, Elizabeth Dey, b. August 18, 1894. 

JENKINSON has lived in Newark continuously since leav- 
ing Princeton, with the exception of the period of his 
service in the Army during the Spanish War. He has been 
manager of the manufacturing department of T. B. Peddie 



146 PRINCETON NINETY-TWO 

& Co., makers of trunks and bags, manager of Hunt's Stone 
and Monument Works, and he is now a successful salesman 
for the American Oil Supply Company. 

Automobiling and horseback riding are his pet forms of 
exercise and recreation. Pie is a member of the New Jersey 
Historical Society, the Essex Club, the St. John's Lodge of 
Masons, and the New Jersey Veterans' Association of the Span- 
ish War, in which organization he is an officer. 

At the time of the war he organized, and commanded as 
captain, a company of colored volunteers, officially known as 
Co. A, 8th U. S. Colored Immune Regiment. He went to 
the Philippines as Captain of Co. C, 33d U. S. Volunteers, 
under Major March. He did excellent work in the Army, and 
his friends are all proud of his military record; but we have 
not been able to get any statement or narrative of his ex- 
periences from him. In fact he has been so busy selling oil 
that he hasn't responded in any way at all to our circulars, etc. 
We obtained the above material from other sources. 

WILLIAM VAIL JOHNSON 

Business. Business Address, 77 Mechanic Street, Newark, N. J. 

Residence, 108 Second Avenue, Newark, N. J. 
Married Kathryn Dorrance Laverty, Scranton, Pa., October 14, 

1902. Children, none. 

OUR former tennis champion graced the landscape of 
Scranton, Pa., for some years after graduation, acting 
in various capacities from " water boy to foreman " in the 
Lackawanna Iron & Steel Company. This does not mean that 
the foreman had a special thirst, but that Johnson began at the 
bottom and worked up. He was in charge of the Special Steel 
Department for some time ; and incidentally held the Scranton 
Challenge Tennis Cup for a couple of years against all comers. 
Having given Scranton and steel a taste of his mettle, he de- 
















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cided to quit the hardware business and returned to New Jersey 
to become a partner in the wholesale grocery firm of T. F. 
Johnson & Company of Newark, where he is now. 

From 1893 to 1900 Johnson was a member of the Pennsyl- 
vania National Guard, and was one of the little band of heroes 
from '92 who " fought, bled and died " for their country during 
the recent misunderstanding with Spain. In April, 1898, when 
the 13th Pennsylvania from Scranton was ordered out, Johnson 
was 4th Sergeant. After enlistment and physical examination 
of the regiment, he found himself promoted to 1st Lieutenant in 
Company A, 13th Pa. Volunteer Infantry, was enrolled April 
27, 1898, and mustered in on May 15, 1898. His company was 
sent to Falls Church, Va., in May, where they remained until 
August, when they moved to Dunn Loring, Va. On the last 
day of August they were shifted back to Camp Meade, six miles 
from Harrisburg, Pa., and there, after three weeks, Johnson 
went down with typhoid and for nine weeks was laid up at the 
Harrisburg City Hospital. While he was on the sick list his 
regiment left for Camp McKenzie, at Augusta, Ga. On March 
11, 1899, he was mustered out with his company. 

"October 28, 1906. 
" Dear Kelly : 

" Better late than never ; so don't be too hard on a fellow. 
Haven't much to say regarding my past life, but will send along 
a sort of outline, hoping you won't make too many slurring 
remarks. 

" Since '92 I have been interested in two lines of business. 
First in Scranton, where in 1893 I started with the Lackawanna 
Iron and Steel Company, learning the business. 

" Gradually worked up to position of foreman in steel works. 
But upon removal of plant to Buffalo in 1902 resigned to enter 
business in Newark with T. F. Johnson & Co.'s Tea, Coffee & 
Spice Mills. 



148 PRIXCETOX XIXETY-TWO 

" Held championship of N. E. Penna. in tennis while in 
Scranton, and served nearly ten years in 13th Regiment, 
National Guard of Pennsylvania. At time of leaving was hold- 
ing position of Captain of Co. A, same regiment. Since my 
return to Newark in 1902 have been office boy, shipping clerk 
and traveling salesman, now being junior member of firm. 

" Have been married four years and only wish I had started 
wedded life ten years before. 

" Am getting stouter and no better looking, year by year. 
I anticipate meeting all the boys again next June and compar- 
ing the events of the rest of the boys in the Record." 

THOMAS B. KENNEDY 

Railroading. Business Address, P. O. Box 130, Chambersburg, Pa. 

Residence, 273 East Market Street, Chambersburg, Pa. 
Married Annie Trimmer, Chambersburg, Pa., April 4, 1895; d. 

December 11, 1903. Children, Kathleen Stewart, b. August 23, 

1896. Ariana Riddle, b. October 28, 1898. 

TOM KENNEDY has been railroading ever since he left 
Princeton. Two years he spent in the West working for 
the Great Northern, and since then has been at Chambersburg 
with the Cumberland Valley Railroad. He has made his way 
up slowly and surely through various grades of office until he 
is now Freight Trainmaster, and is close in line for a superin- 
tendency. He is a member of the Tau Chapter of the % W 
Fraternity, of the Kittochtinny Historical Society, the Penn- 
sylvania Scotch-Irish Society, and the Engineers' Club of Cen- 
tral Pennsylvania. He says he gets all the exercise he wants 
hopping on and off freight trains and his favorite recreation 
is hunting. 

Kennedy did not write a letter for publication, but sent a 
private letter to the Secretary, parts of which we are permitted 
to use. He says : " Your request for a short letter giving a 



BIOGRAPHIES 149 

brief history of personal doings, etc., will, I am afraid, have to 
be omitted as I am not much of a hand at letter or history 
writing. Since leaving Princeton — ahead of my class — I have 
devoted myself to railroading, and for the past fourteen years 
have been employed by the Cumberland Valley Railroad Co., 
in my home town. Until November, 1906, I was in the Main- 
tenance of Way and Engineering Department, and since that 
time have been in the Transportation Department, being pro- 
moted to the position of Freight Trainmaster on November 
1, 1906. . . . 

" I have written you these few lines under personal cover so 
that you can at least say that I have been heard from and am 
still alive. While I am not a graduate of Princeton, still I 
hold most dear the memories of several happy years spent in 
the old college, and count as some of my most valued assets some 
little knowledge which was thrust upon me there; and also I 
will never be able to give up my portion of the dispensation of 
that which we have called the Princeton Spirit. With best 
wishes for yourself and the Class and old Princeton, 

" I am sincerely yours, 

" January 14, 1907." " Thos. B. Kennedy." 

JOHN BENEM KOUWENHOVEN, A.M., M.D. 

Physician. Residence, 185 Palisade Avenue, Yonkers, N. Y. 
Married Grace Atlee, Philadelphia, May 24, 1906. Children, none. 

HE Baron sends this letter : 

" 185 Palisade Ave., Yonkers, N. Y. 
" Dear Mike : 

" Well, you most certainly have had troubles of your own 
with me, and I am very sorry. But your request for pictures 
has been the rub — I simply have not been able to find time for a 
session with a photographer — and I am compelled finally to send 



150 PRINCETON NINETY-TWO 

you a two-year-old production by a rather non-artistic Yonkers 
artist. I enclose it together with a rather bad picture of my 
wife. 

" You ask for a brief review of the past, since you last heard 
from us all for publication. Right at the start, I desire to state 
that I have recently become one of the most favored of men. 
On the twenty-fourth day of May of this year, Grace Atlee of 
Philadelphia, Pa., became Mrs. John Baron K. — and my cup 
of rejoicing has been full to overflowing ever since. 

" I had lived long in error. I had believed that the old way 
— going it alone — was the better way for me to live and do my 
work. But it was all wrong — I have known that for a splendid 
half year now. There is so much of added interest and incen- 
tive in this new life. 

" But — I have anticipated. I must begin at the beginning — 
away back in '92 — and give brief details of things as they have 
come. 

" After graduation I went to New York and spent three 
years very hard at work, at the College of Physicians and Sur- 
geons. It was simply a grind, for the three long years. Mc- 
Williams and Baldy Denniston and I had rooms in the same 
boarding house near the college, and managed to keep up one 
another's interest somehow. It was all hard work, with a brisk 
walk for an hour each day as our only recreation. 

" In 1895 we succeeded in getting our M. D.'s and Mac and 
Herb Carter and I won places as Internes at the Presbyterian 
Hospital, which was very gratifying. We had two splendid 
years there, getting all sorts of experience, and at the end of the 
service I accepted an appointment as Interne at the New York 
Foundling Hospital. There I spent one year — a most valuable 
training in the line of children's diseases. Towards the end of 
that service, which expired July 1, 1898, I looked for an open- 
ing, and the field at Yonkers promptly presented itself. I came 
here that autumn to be associated with a former Presbyterian 




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Hospital alumnus who had established a very wide practice and 
needed help. And — all has gone well — and here I have con- 
tinued to live and to practice medicine ever since. 

" About a year after starting the work here, I was appointed 
an attending physician to St. John's Hospital — and two years 
ago came an appointment as physician to the Leake and Watts 
Orphan House, so that I have been well favored with oppor- 
tunities for clinical study in various lines. 

" My work in private practice has grown extensively — and on 
the whole, I have been a busy man (at times more than busy) 
during the past five years or more. It is a good work though. 
I don't know about a life-work more satisfying in very many 
respects. There are draw-backs, of course. One's time is 
never his own. The best laid plans must constantly be given 
over. The practice of general medicine is more exacting than 
any profession that I know about. But — I love my job all 
right — and I am in it to stay — and do the best work I can. 
The field is good, I am blessed with good health, and the outlook 
at present and for the future seems bright. 

" The Baroness and I have established ourselves in a new 
home where we hope that you and many of the good men of '92 
will find opportunity to come to see us. 

" Most sincerely, 

" John B. Kouwenhoven." 

PRESTON STEWART KRECKER 

Advertising. Business Address, 1 West 34th Street, New York 
City. Residence, 829 Seventh Avenue, New York City. 

Married Marguerite Helen Maddern, New York City, November 
1, 1904. Children, Preston Stewart, Jr., b. August 21, 1905. 

AFTER graduation Krecker taught Latin at Schuylkill 
Academy, Fredericksburg, Pa., for a year, and then 
moved to Lebanon, Pa., where he was editor of the Daily Re- 



152 PRINCETON NINETY-TWO 

port. Later he resided in Philadelphia, where he was on the 
staff of the Philadelphia Press, and in New York as assistant 
night editor of the New York Times. He is an Independent 
Democrat and belongs to the Crescent Athletic Club of Brook- 
lyn. His hobbv is tennis. 



AMOS L. LAKEY, Jr. 

We have not succeeded in tracing Lakey. 

WILTON JOHN LAMBERT, A.M., LL.B. 

Lawyer. Business Address, 410 5th Street, N. W., Washington, 
D. C. Residence, 1620 S Street, N. W., Washington, D. C. 

Married Elizabeth Gorman, Washington, D. C, June 26, 1896. 
Children, Elizabeth Gorman, b. August 15, 1897. Arthui 
Gorman, b. February 9, 1899- 

1AMBERT pursued his legal studies at Georgetown Univer- 
_j sity, and has attended strictly to business ever since, with 
the result that he is now one of the leading younger lawyers in 
the District, representing a number of large corporations at 
the capital. By marriage a son-in-law of the late Senator 
Gorman of Maryland, Lambert has also done his own share of 
political work in that State, stumping it in several campaigns 
for the Democratic party. He has persistently refused, how- 
ever, to run for any office, but devotes himself entirely to his 
profession. He is Associate Counsel for the Business Men's 
Association, and was sent to the opening of the St. Louis Ex- 
position as a representative of the District of Columbia. His 
hobby is his collection of firearms ; it is well worth seeing. 

" In my last letter which was sent for use in the triennial 
record, I announced to you that I had just finished my course 



BIOGRAPHIES 153 

in the Law Department of Georgetown University, standing 
second in my class, and having had the honor of being its presi- 
dent. I immediately passed my examination for the Bar in the 
District of Columbia, and formed a partnership with my father, 
which continued along with considerable success until he retired 
in '99 from active professional business. I then formed a 
partnership with Mr. D. W. Baker, a promising young attorney 
of this city, which was attended with much success and con- 
tinued until about one year ago, when Mr. Baker was selected 
by the President of the United States to fill the office of the 
United States District Attorney for the District of Columbia, 
since which time with the assistance of our clerks I have been 
carrying on the practice in my individual capacity. My time 
has been almost entirely spent in professional work, and I have 
been very fortunate in securing the clientage of large corpora- 
tions and well-to-do individuals. I was attorney for the Amer- 
ican League Baseball Association in connection with their legal 
battles to obtain a foothold in Washington, and represented 
them in some of the important injunction proceedings against 
the National League. I have been for some time attorney in 
the District of Columbia for the Frank A. Munsey Company 
and the Washington Times Newspaper Corporation. I also rep- 
resent some of the theaters here as well as banks. I have 
recently been retained by the Eastern Oil Company in its legal 
work in the District of Columbia, and am associate counsel for 
the Business Men's Association, which is one of the two largest 
associations of influential citizens of this District. Among the 
principal cases which I have tried was the Thornton will case, 
which was fought successfully through the Supreme Court of 
the United States, and the large libel suit brought against the 
Washington Times on account of alleged injurious publications 
against Mrs. Becker, which after being stubbornly fought for 
a number of days, resulted in a verdict of one cent for the 
plaintiff. I will not attempt to enumerate further matters in 



154 PRINCETON NINETY-TWO 

connection with business, but will conclude by remarking that 
I was married on the 26th of June, 1896, to Miss Bessie Gor- 
man, daughter of Senator Gorman of Maryland, and have taken 
considerable interest and done considerable work in the line of 
political speech-making in Maryland on behalf of the Demo- 
cratic party since that time. 

" With sincerest wishes for the welfare of each and every 
member of the Class of '92, 

" I am, cordially yours, 

" Wilton J. Lambert." 



THOMAS COWDEN LAUGHLIN, A.M., B.D., Ph.D. 

Real Estate Broker. Address, P. O. Box 1299, Seattle, Wash. Un- 
married. 

THE year following graduation, Laughlin taught mathe- 
matics in Parsons College, Fairfield, la. During 1893- 
94» he was Instructor in Greek at Kenyon College, Gambier, 
Ohio, then for three years he attended the Princeton Theologi- 
cal Seminary, where in 1897 he earned the degree of S. T. B., 
following this with a year at Harvard, where he obtained the 
degree of Bachelor of Divinity in 1898. Then he went abroad 
for study at Gottingen, Berlin and Paris, returning in 1900 to 
Princeton for another residence of two years, at the end of 
which period he successfully crowned his long and hard prepara- 
tory work by obtaining the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, his 
dissertation being a discussion of the " Solecisms of the 
Apocalypse." Accepting the chair of New Testament Litera- 
ture and Greek Exegesis in the Pacific Theological Seminary at 
Berkeley, Cal., he turned his steps westward once more. 

His inaugural address was on " The Pastoral Epistles in the 
Light of one Roman Imprisonment." At Berkeley he remained 
for five years. 



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" In addition to the usual experiences which most of us have 
had since graduation," he writes on the back of his circular, " it 
has fallen to me to be shipwrecked " (when the Patria burned 
in the North Sea, November 15, 1899, and Laughlin lost all he 
had, with nine diplomas, five of them from Princeton, and was 
picked up by a lumber ship after several hours in a boat. — 
Eds.), " to be quarantined in New Orleans during the yellow 
fever siege in the summer of 1905, and now to have passed 
through the terrible earthquake and fire in San Francisco of 
April, 1906- I shall not attempt to tell of my personal experi- 
ences in those disasters in one short letter. It is enough to say 
that I have each time escaped personal injury." 

After all these warnings — perils of fire, perils of waters and 
perils of fever — Laughlin has at last decided to reform, and 
just as this book goes to press he writes hurriedly to say that 
he has quit teaching, hocked his remaining diplomas, and has 
started finally on the Simple Life as a real estate broker in 
Seattle, Washington. 

ALEXANDER S. LILLEY 

Contractor. Office, 604 Mission Street, San Francisco, Cal. 

Residence, San Rafael, Cal. 
Married Juliette Williams, May 2Q, 1902. Children, Ethel 

Rodgers, b. . Alexander Neil, b. . 

WE would try to gild the lily, but we haven't the goods ; 
he hasn't sent them. Al tells us, however, that he is 
president of the Lilley & Thurston Company, engaged in the 
structural steel and contracting business. He has resided in 
Columbus, 0., New York City, and Chicago since graduation. 
He belongs to the University Club of San Francisco, where he 
sees Max Farrand, who, he understands, is hard to beat in his 
specialty at Stanford University — viz., trout fishing. Al is 
also a member of the Olympic Club of San Francisco, the San 



156 PRINCETON NINETY-TWO 

Francisco Golf and Country Club, and the San Rafael Country 
Club. He used to see Tommy Irvin before the earthquake of 
April, 1906, and " he was getting three meals a day " then ; 
but he has seen him only once since. Golf, swimming, riding 
and squash are Al's exercise and recreations and he believes in 
" eating a little and drinking enough." 

FINLEY HALL LLOYD 

Wholesale Dry Goods. Business Address, 933 Penn Avenue, Pitts- 
burg, Pa. Residence, Shields, Pa. 

Married Sara Scott Spencer, Glenshaw, Pa., September 25, 1895. 
Children, Elizabeth Hall, b. May 30, 1898. Finley Hall, Jr., 
b. May 14, 1900. 

HERE is an honest man. He admits that, all in all, eating 
and sleeping are his principal recreations, with a little 
golf thrown in to taste. His hobby is the " shortest possible 
time from bed to train," and as for gossip about any '92 men 
he quotes to us (or rather begins the quotation) " Do unto 
others," etc. He has " kept away as far as possible from 
politics." Of army service he has seen none, but has played 
golf with a commander in the navy, so is not without naval 
experience. Asked where he has lived, he proudly exclaims, 
" Pittsburg forever ! " He belongs to the Duquesne, Pitts- 
burg and Allegheny Country Clubs, and also to a few Prince- 
ton Clubs. 

LORENZO GRENVILLE LYON V 

Teaching. Residence, 5 Wall Street, New Brighton, N. Y. Un- 
married. 

I YON has moved around a good deal in pursuit of his profes- 
_J sion. From August, '92, to June, '93, he taught Greek, 
French and general subjects at the Delaware Academy, Delhi, 



BIOGRAPHIES 157 

N. Y. From September, '93, to November, '95, he taught the 
Classics and French and Rhetoric at the West Jersey Academy, 
Bridgeton, N. J., his old school. Then he took a long jump 
and in February, 1896, landed bag and baggage at Mackenzie 
College, S. Paulo, Brazil, where besides assisting in the adminis- 
tration of the institution, he also taught his favorite subjects of 
Latin, Greek and English. There he remained until April, 
1899. Then, feeling lonely, he took another transcontinental 
leap and woke up in January, 1900, at Mt. Hermon School, 
Mt. Hermon, Mass., where he supplied local deficiencies in 
Latin and Greek. From February, 1902, to June, 1903, he 
was principal of the High School at Woodstown, N. J., and 
taught in the three upper grades. In the following September 
and until the next February, he taught in the Grammar and 
Evening Schools. Then for the next two years he was in the 
New Brighton, S. I., Academy teaching Latin and Greek with 
general assistant work. He is at present a tutor at New 
Brighton and substitute in the N. Y. Schools, and heads 
the eligible list for regular appointment as high school assistant 
in Latin. He has travelled in all the New England and Middle 
Atlantic States, and half a dozen countries on the Continent, be- 
sides the British Isles, Canada and South America. 



V 
WILLIAM ADAMS MACKENZIE, Jr., LL.B. 

Lawyer. Office, 541 Onondaga Savings Bank Building, Syracuse, 

N. Y. Residence, 1017 East Adams Street, Syracuse, N. Y. 
Married Mariella Grant, November 1, 1904. Children, none. 

MACKENZIE studied law at Albany and was graduated 
in 1894, and since 1895 has been practicing at Syra- 
cuse, being at present partner in the firm of Mackenzie & 
Wade. While he has never been an officeholder or seeker, yet 
he has always taken a degree of interest in municipal politics as 



158 PRINCETON NINETY-TWO 

a Republican, and has even delivered a few burning political 
speeches, on which occasions, however, he says both he and the 
cause suffered. Fish Hall is the only frankly self-appreciative 
political orator in the Class. But, like Mackenzie, everyone else 
has fizzled as a speaker, according to his own statement. Mac- 
kenzie doesn't know what his hobby is — " no man can recognize 
his own insanity." But it looks as if a bunch of his classmates 
have made a pretty good shot at it ; and as for the others we 
can point theirs out for them. He is one of our Spanish War 
veterans, having been Sergeant of Co. A, 203d N. Y. Infantry ; 
but owing to the mosquitoes at Camp Black he never got the 
chance to fire a gun or see the enemy. The mosquitoes and 
their poison landed him in hospital with malaria and by the 
time he got well the late misunderstanding was over. In the 
Princeton Club of Syracuse he is one of the most enthusiastic 
members. He balked at the photograph idea, but his military 
training helped us and he capitulated — 

His not to reason why — 
His but to do and die! 



" Syracuse, N. Y., Jan. 10, 1907. 
" My Dear Prentice : 

" I had not appreciated the fact that you wished to make a 
complete pictorial record of the Class of '92, but supposed the 
contribution of that material was more or less optional; and 
having neither beauty nor celebrity I didn't think that it would 
make any difference. 

" With the other view, however, I am only too glad to do 
anything that I can to help along, and have this morning ex- 
posed myself to the photographic camera, with hopes for the 
result, which will be forwarded to you promptly. 

" I think that the answers to your questions cover my bi- 
ography, but as I see from a more careful reading of your 






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letter that you specially request a letter in reply I will give a 
few further particulars, endeavoring to keep in mind your 
words of caution, and giving to you full authority to use, 
disregard, abridge, or amplify — 

" After graduation I studied Law at the Albany Law School, 
from which I graduated in 1894. The next year I came to 
Syracuse and entered the office of Stone, Gannon & Pettit, re- 
maining with that firm until the summer of 1898, when I en- 
listed on the second call for volunteers for the Spanish War. 
After six weeks at Camp Black I contracted a fever and was 
in the hospital until my discharge. Returning to Syracuse I 
formed a partnership with Frank E. Wade, Yale, '94, which 
has continued until the present time. 

" Although there are no other '92 men in Syracuse, we have 
a small but enthusiastic Princeton Club. The Van Duyns, '62, 
'94, and '04, McAllister '88, Belknap '89, Jenney '94, and 
others all gather whenever a victory is to be celebrated or 
a Princetonian gives us a chance to furnish entertainment. As 
yet, no member of the Class of '92 has given us that opportun- 
ity, but should he come this way I trust that he will let me know 
and give us a chance to show our hospitality." 

JOHN MACLEAN MAGIE, A.M. 

Journalist. Business Address, The New York Tribune. Residence, 

227 East 72d Street, New York City. 
Married Gertrude von C. Klein, Trenton, N. J., April 23, 1903. 

Children, none. 

MAGGIE MAGIE studied at Leipzig and Erlangen from 
1893 to 1895, and then taught classics in the Pingry 
School at Elizabeth until 1897. Since then he has been on the 
Tribune. So much of a journalist is he that he shuns station- 
ery and ink, and uses the office pencil and scratch paper (to call 
it no worse name) for his private correspondence. He must 



160 PRINCETON NINETY-TWO 

have lost his moral sense reading the comic supplement. Here 
is his pencilled autobiography : 

" Dear William : 

" For the last three years I have attended strictly to business, 
and because this business was done in the night time I have had 
neither recreation nor friends. My charming personality has 
not been copied by the camera in years, and it is too late to bid 
for fame in that way now. When senile dementia comes I shall 
turn muck-raker, and then my portrait will be in all the maga- 
zines. In the meantime, my photograph would not embellish 
the Book of Beauty. Why not try to turn out an artistic 
work ? 

" I trust that I violate no Princeton ideal in this reference to 
Hopped-on Eclair. The Bungle, I understand, is about to be 
removed to Englewood, which also possesses its fair share of 
fools. 

" There is nothing which I could put into a class letter which 
would be of interest to the men I used to know, and the queries 
which I have answered cover all the necessary facts." 



ALBERTUS McLAREN MARSHALL, LL.B. 

Lawyer. Business Address, 716 Reibold Building, Dayton, Ohio. 

Residence, 640 Superior Avenue, Dayton, Ohio. 
Married Mary Moore Elder, Dayton, Ohio, October 25, 1900. 

Children, Robert Dickson, b. March 5, 1902. Thomas Elder, 

b. April 17, 1905. 

SPORT MARSHALL studied a year in his father's Dayton 
law office and then returned to the Great White Way and 
entered the New York Law School, taking his degree there. 
Since then he has been practicing at Dayton. He is a Demo- 
crat, is fond of hunting and fishing, and still plays baseball. 
His hobby is bird dogs. 



BIOGRAPHIES 161 



HENRY LEE MASON, Jr. 

Stationer and Bookseller. Business Address, 429-431 Wood Street, 
Pittsburg, Pa. Residence, 608 North Highland Avenue, Pitts- 
burg, Pa. 

Married Martha Frew Lockhart, Pittsburg, Pa., June 25, 1895. 
Children, none. 

MASON went into his father's book and stationery com- 
pany at Pittsburg after leaving college and has con- 
tinued doing business at the old stand. Like all Pittsburg 
Princetonians, he is an enthusiastic Princeton rooter and at- 
tends all alumni gatherings. He is a member of the Duquesne, 
Union, and Monongahela Clubs of Pittsburg, and of course 
belongs to the Princeton Alumni Association. As for politics, 
he replies " not interested — too crooked ; politics, I mean, not 
myself." His chief exercise is chasing clerks around the store, 
and his recreation, automobiling, which is likewise his hobby. 
The '92 men he most frequently sees are McCune and Reddy 
Smith, but he does not tell us what he knows about them — 
" not fit for publication." There will probably be a free fight 
in the store when this appears in print — if McCune and the 
Rosy-haired One can tear themselves away from their ordinary 
pursuits long enough to start in to clean up our book-selling 
joker. Mason won't chase clerks that day, no sir! 



162 PRINCETON NINETY-TWO 

JOHN MILLS MAYHEW, M.D. 

Physician. Office, 207 Funke Building, Lincoln, Neb. Residence, 
1420 G Street, Lincoln, Neb. 

Married Winifred Grace Busbey, Chicago, 111., June 6, 1898. Chil- 
dren, Alice Dorothy, b. December 24, 1900; d. January 10, 
1901. Winifred Busbey, b. November 1, 1902. 

COLONEL WILLIAM J. BRYAN'S fellow-townsman was 
landed after a desperate struggle, and here is the result. 
He studied medicine at the Chicago College of Physicians and 
Surgeons and took his degree in 1895. He remained in the 
Windy City until 1901 and then moved to Lincoln, where he 
finds exercise and recreation in playing pinochle, bunco and 
the organ. His profession is medicine, but his hobby is the 
same as ever — music ; and if rumor is not at fault he is living 
up to his Freshman nickname. He has travelled, not widely 
but well — " Lincoln to Bull's Crossing and return, 20 miles 
in 1897 (overland)." Said Crossing isn't on the map. He 
sees Dr. VanDyke Wight, President of Hastings College, 
occasionally, a divine " who is spending his time between raising 
a family and raising funds for his college. Intimate friend of 
the magnates, Rockefeller, Carnegie, Pearson, or any other 
fellow who has money to give away." Sam Small alleges that 
Joe has found a gold mine somewhere, and has struck it rich ; 
but. Joe has not confirmed the allegation. Sam, you know, is 
a dealer in water stock, and probably sees visions and dreams 
dreams more than occasionally. 

We regret we cannot reproduce the red-ink letter-head Dr. 
Mayhew uses. But you can all note the delicate compliment 
in his opening words : 

" Lincoln, Nebraska, January 10, 1907. 
" Gentlemen and Kelly Prentice : 

" I am coming on to Princeton in the Spring. When I get 
there I'm going to hunt up Jim Westervelt and Tommy Bell, 



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and then proceed to annihilate the whole bunch of '92 men who 
have been hounding me for three months — viz., the Publication 
Committee. What do you want to hurry a man so for? I 
only knew about this matter six months ago and have been 
considering it ever since. My motives are worthy, if my con- 
duct doesn't seem to be. 

" In this short resume of my past I cannot go into much 
detail, but will let it go with saying that for the past nine 
years I've been one-half sick, the other half not so much so. 
This climate has commenced to show some result now, and I'm 
improving. This bit of information carries with it everything 
in the way of ups and downs in my career. When a man's only 
half up to the mark he amounts to about one quarter and 
street car fare. This sounds on re-reading rather discouraged, 
but I'm not that. On the other hand, in the ' words of the im- 
mortal Buck Ewing,' I'm ' up and coming now,' and want to 
see the whole Class, one by one, separately and collectively, in 
June. 

" Photographs in six natural and easy poses — ' coming up,' 
soon. " Yours to a Cinder, 

" Joe." 

JOHN ROBINSON McCUNE 

Banking. Business Address, Union National Bank, Pittsburg, Pa. 



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cCUNE signed a registered letter receipt, but that is all 
we have from him. 



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HARRY FLEMING McDOWELL, M.D. 

Physician. Office, 39 12th Street. Franklin, Pa. Residence, 45 

12th Street, Franklin, Pa. 
Married Edith Lytle Jones. Franklin. Pa.. September 17,. 1902. 

Children, none. 

TRACY was graduated from the University of \Vestern 
Pennsylvania Medical College at Pittsburg in 1895, and 
since then has followed the busy life of a physician. He belongs 
to the usual County, State and American Medical Societies, plays 
golf and tennis occasionally, and is a crank about dogs and 
guns. As modest as ever about his own life and doings, he 
writes : 

" To the Class Committee, Princeton, X. J. 

" Dear Sirs: — To sit down and tell to friends and acquaint- 
ances one's achievements and accomplishments, where no record 
of exaggerations is kept and where boasts are forgotten when the 
sparkle and foam have gone, is easy, but to write of them with 
name attached is different. 

" In '92 I looked ahead and dreamed of great things. Fif- 
teen years later I look back and reluctantly confess that along 
my pathway there are mighty few things worth placarding. 

" After studying medicine and practicing it for six years in 
hospitals of several varieties, I located in 1901 in Franklin, 
Pa., where I married and where I am probably located to stay. 

" I am, therefore, a busy general practitioner of medicine, 
contented, fairly successful, fairly prosperous in a small city 
which has been called ' The Nursery of Great Men.' Need I 
add more, therefore, in writing of my achievements? 

" Yours sincerely. 

" H. F. McDowell. 

" October 16, 1906." 



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ALAN CASSILIS McILVAINE, LL.B. 

Lawyer. Business Address, 1406 Marquette Building, Chicago, 111. 

Residence, Winnetka, 111. 
Married Bertha Marie Hately, Chicago, April 24, 1899- Children, 

Helen, b. January 20, 1905. 

THE Managing Editor of the Tiger studied law at the 
Chicago College of Law and was graduated in 1895, 
since when he has assisted in disentangling legal complications 
in the City of Chicago. His eloquence before juries has usually 
been cheered by his clients and occasionally he has been suffered. 
In politics he has hustled out voters and has had several chances 
to work the party, but couldn't afford to take office. On due 
consideration he believes he might be classed as a Republican. 
The only positions he has occupied have been the sad one alluded 
to in the beginning of this sketch, and the trusteeship of one 
or two charitable organizations. For exercise he cuts the grass 
and rocks the baby, like a good commuter ; and for recreation 
he plays golf. He has no hobbies — " am not a crank — merely 
a cog." 

CHARLES ALBERT McKENNEY 

Civil Engineer. Business Address, Municipal Building, 14th and 

E Streets, N. W., Washington, D. C. Residence, 1523 Rhode 

Island Avenue, Washington, D. C. 
Married Frances Marion Miller, Washington, D. C, February 14, 

1901. Children, James Hall, 2d, b. November 25, 1902. 

William Miller, b. September 30, 1904; d. October 11, 1905. 

IT will be remembered that Mac started operations in the 
office of the Engineer Commissioner of the District of 
Columbia and made good at once. He is now the Assistant 
Engineer of the new Municipal Building going up in the 



166 PRINCETON NINETY-TWO 

Capital. He is a member of the following professional socie- 
ties: the American Society of Civil Engineers, the Washington 
Society of Civil Engineers, and the National Geographic So- 
ciety. 

As for the bust to which he alludes, it was decided that it 
would be somewhat unwieldy to keep among the class archives, 
so with keen regret the offer was declined. It seems to be up 
to Mac to keep it for his own tomb, as he suggests ; or may be 
it could be planted in front of the Municipal Building in Wash- 
ington, where there is plenty of room. 

" Washington, D. C, Nov. 15th, 1906. 
" My Dear Prentice : 

" I send you herewith the statistics which you requested. As 
for a letter I have but little to say in regard to myself. The 
fall after leaving Princeton I entered upon the pursuit of my 
chosen calling, Civil Engineering, and have been steadily en- 
gaged in that work ever since. In recent years I have been 
associated with or in charge of some of the largest engineering 
works in this community. At present I am in charge of the 
construction of the Municipal Government Building ; cost about 
$2,500,000, all of which the city will get the benefit of, as 
there is no ' graft.' Your request for a photo of myself is a 
hard one to comply with as I dodge the photographer the same 
as I would a dentist, and I have not posed for the camera for 
at least ten years. However, I send you a photo of a bust 
which has just been completed of me by a friend who has quite 
some standing as a sculptor in this locality. I am sorry I 
cannot send you the bust, as I do not know what else to do 
with it unless I hurry up and die so that it can be placed at the 
grave. With very best regards to the entire Class. 

".Sincerely, 
" Charles Albert McKenney." 



C. A. McKenney 





C. S. McMahon 




C. A. McWlLLIAMS 





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AUSTIN McLANAHAN, LL.B. 

Banker. Business Address, Care Alex. Brown & Sons, Baltimore, 
Md. Residence, " Misery Hill/' Melvale, Baltimore Co., Md. 

Married Romaine Le Moyne, Melvale, Baltimore Co., Md., Novem- 
ber 6, 1902. Children, none 

" Messrs. Howard Crosby Butler, V. Lansing Collins, Wm. 

K. Prentice, Committee Expectant of the Class of '92. 

" Gentlemen: — I have received two copies of your extrava- 
ganza dated May 15th, and hasten to return herewith the 
bordereau you enclosed. 

" When I told my wife of your request for our photograph 
and explained to her in what company it would be found, she 
put her foot down. If I can get out from under in time I shall 
try to forward you my own likeness. 

" About myself, there is really nothing worth chronicling. 
From the time I graduated until May, 1894, I loafed at home, 
then I came to Baltimore in the capacity of private secretary 
to Mr. Alexander Brown, head of the banking firm of Alexander 
Brown & Sons, and in the meantime studied law at the Uni- 
versity of Maryland, graduated and was admitted to the 
Baltimore Bar, although never practiced. In January, 1902, 
I was admitted to partnership in the firm. Since then the only 
event of exceptional importance was my wedding in the fall of 
that year. A wee bit of a story, but there is all of it. 

" Any details I shall cheerfully furnish at the June Reunion. 

" Vale, 

" Austin McLanahan." 

In the meantime here are a few extra details which Reddy 
can embellish at the reunion. He was graduated from the 
University of Maryland Law School in 1897 with the degree of 
LL.B. He is up to his neck in business and has no time for 



168 PRINCETON NINETY-TWO 

hobbies and very little for exercise and recreation. He doesn't 
even develop his chest as he used to do in the old Gym. But he 
is important enough in Baltimore to have quarter-column inter- 
views in the papers when he returns from his vacations, giving 
his opinions on the weather, crops, politics, business outlook, 
and his own health. One of these days he will get half-columns. 
With Billy Wilson running the B. & 0., and Reddy superin- 
tending as much of the haute finance as Pop Rieman acci- 
dentally neglects, and Jesse Riggs insuring everyone's life, and 
Alf. Riggs looking after the legal end of things, and E. J. 
Cook monopolizing business in the suburbs, and the extenuated 
Pendleton watching the tape and juggling the stocks, while the 
Stork dispenses music and Chattolanee Spring water, it seems as 
if '92 had got Baltimore right where it wants it. There appears 
to be room, however, for a '92 doctor and perhaps a minister 
or so — and an undertaker. Bids on any or all of these remain- 
ing jobs will be received by Alf. Riggs. 



CHARLES S. McMAHON 

Banking. Office, National Bank of Cambridge, Ohio. Residence, 
935 Wheeling Avenue, Cambridge, Ohio. Unmarried. 

McMAHON is cashier of the National Bank of Cambridge, 
Ohio, in which town he has resided since graduation. 
He is a member of the Princeton Club of New York, and is a 
golfer. He disclaims any particular hobby, but says he is a 
crank in general. He's a pretty good crank, however. He 
comes on to Yale games, and had planned to be at the smoker 
last November in New York, but that evening he got " hitched 
up " with some friends — non-Princetonians — and did not make 
connections with the Hofbrau House. And yet we did not see 
anything about his doings in the next morning's papers. Or 
do we misunderstand him? 



BIOGRAPHIES 169 



CLARENCE ARTHUR McWILLIAMS, A.M., M.D. 

Surgeon. Residence and Office, 112 West 55th Street, New York 
City. Unmarried. 

DR. McWILLIAMS has no prospects matrimonially and 
has been given up as an incurable by his immediate 
friends. Surgically, however, he has literally carved out a 
reputation for himself. He is a graduate of the P. & S. (Co- 
lumbia) and studied an extra year at Berlin. Besides relieving 
people of superfluous or defective portions of their anatomy, 
he teaches other young gentlemen how the Lord intended to 
make them. For he has lectured on Normal Histology in the 
College of Physicians and Surgeons, was for three years Assist- 
ant Demonstrator of Anatomy in the Cornell Medical College 
at New York, and for the past three years has served as an 
Instructor in Surgery at the P. & S. For five years now he 
has also been Assistant Surgeon to the Presbyterian Hospital, 
Surgeon to Trinity Hospital, and Surgical Chief of the Out- 
patient Ward, Presbyterian Hospital, N. Y. City. During 
the Spanish War he " fought, bled, and died " for his country 
for two months as Assistant Surgeon in the Volunteers with 
rank of Lieutenant, being assigned to the U. S. A. Hospital 
Ship " Relief." " During this time (August 10th to October 
11th)," says he in the official record of Princeton in the Spanish 
War, " we made trips between Porto Rico and the northern 
ports in the United States, conveying the sick from Porto Rico. 
We also acted as an ambulance ship to convey the sick from 
Montauk Point to Boston and Philadelphia at the time the 
authorities were hurrying the sick away from Montauk as fast 
as possible." He has appeared prominently in the Medical 
Societies, and a list of his writings on topics ranging from 
movable kidneys to ingrowing toenails is given in the Hot Air 



170 PRINCETON NINETY-TWO 

Furnace. The medical fraternity tells us that McWilliams has 
a great future before him. Here is his tale of woe: 

" 112 West 55th St., New York City, Nov. 30, 1906. 
" My Dear Kelly : 

" I cannot chronicle that I have acquired either wealth or 
fame during the past fifteen years — neither have I attached to 
myself that summum bonum, a wife. To inquiring friends as 
to the ' how ' of that last deplorable condition, I may give the 
following reason: Having been ' thrown down ' about fourteen 
times, I have given it up as a bad job and expect to spend the 
remainder of my days in single 'loneliness' (?), but notwith- 
standing this drawback, I have managed to be happy and con- 
tented, and pleased with the world generally. 

*' For over ten years Baron Kouwenhoven, Bob Stevenson, 
Herb Carter and myself have not missed going to the Yale 
game together. Baron was a little weak about going with us 
once or twice at about the time he was hovering around Phila- 
delphia anxiously and expectantly, but since then he and Bob 
Stevenson have made antenuptial agreements which absolve 
each of them from the necessity of taking their wives to the 
games, and the annual custom is to be perpetuated despite matri- 
mony. 

" On leaving Princeton a number of our Class went to the 
College of Physicians and Surgeons, the Medical Department 
of Columbia University. Among these were Herb Carter, Baron 
Kouwenhoven, Bob Denniston, Bailey, Bradley and myself. 
Completing our course there, a great hick ordained that Herb 
Carter, Baron Kouwenhoven and myself should be admitted 
together as Internes to the staff of the Presbyterian Hospital. 
New York. A more delightful two years it would be hard to 
imagine than we spent there together — abundance of agreeable 
and instructive work amidst most congenial surroundings. It 
looked several times as though the Baron was getting seriously 



BIOGRAPHIES 171 

entangled with some pretty nurse, and I may say confidentially 
that I had to warn him a number of times, even chide him on 
his frivolity in awakening false hopes in some young bosom. 
We all got through our course in the Hospital unscathed, how- 
ever, in that regard, and we trust the others did likewise. 

" On leaving the Presbyterian I then served as Interne in 
the Sloane Maternity Hospital, where the proper mode of en- 
tering the world is taught. Following this I went to Berlin 
to study medicine for a year, since which time I have been located 
in New York. My practice has largely turned into a surgical 
one. The positions I hold at present represent surgery en- 
tirely, namely, Instructor in Surgery at the College of Physi- 
cians and Surgeons, Columbia University ; Surgeon to Trinity 
Hospital, Assistant Surgeon to the Presbyterian Hospital and 
Chief of the Surgical Clinic, Out-patient Department of the 
Presbyterian Hospital. 

" Members of the good old Class of '92 will always find a 
hearty welcome at the above address. 

" Always sincerely, 

" Clarence A. Mc Williams." 

ELMER LLEWELLYN MEYERS, A.M., M.D. 

Physician. Residence, 158 South Main Street, Wilkes-Barre, Pa. 
Married Grace Hampton Morgan, Wilkes-Barre, Pa., April 22, 1903. 
Children, Margaretta Foulke, b. March 9, 1904. 

JIM ROBINSON'S double located at White Haven, Luzerne 
County, Pa., and was Supervising Principal of Schools 
there for two years ; then he moved to Wilkes-Barre to become 
Head of Department of Ancient and Modern Languages and 
College Preparatory Department of Public Schools. He then 
migrated to Philadelphia to take up the study of medicine at 
the Jefferson Medical College, where, in 1900, he took his 
degree. He was Assistant Demonstrator of Anatomy for a 
year thereafter, and also City Vaccine Physician. For the 



172 PRINCETON NINETY-TWO 

last five years he has been practicing at Wilkes-Barre. He 
belongs to the usual State and County Medical Societies, and 
also to the American Medical Society and to the Philadelphia 
Society for the Study and Prevention of Social Diseases, and 
to the Wyoming Valley Society for the Prevention and Treat- 
ment of Tuberculosis. Several of his medical papers have been 
published. 

RUSSELL KING MILLER 

Musician. Business Address, 1714 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, 
Pa. Residence, The Ivan, 47th Street and Baltimore Avenue, 
Philadelphia, Pa. 

Married Emily Meyer Wilson, Philadelphia, Pa., November 22, 
1899- Children, none. 

DUSTY MILLER is very reticent. The few autobiograph- 
ical data we have been able to gather are the following : 
After he left college in the spring of 1890 he settled down to 
musical work. In 1891 he went to New York for further 
study, and in the following year was appointed Instructor in 
Musical Theory and Composition at the New York Conserva- 
tory. Returning to Philadelphia, for the last twelve years 
he has been working steadily. Much of his composition has 
been published by Schirmer, by Fisher of New York, and by 
Ditson of Boston. 

FRANK MONTGOMERY MILLIGAN 

Piailroading. Business Address, 368 Washington Street, Boston, 
Mass. Residence, 94 Boston Avenue, West Medford, Mass. 

Married Sara Jessamine Jones, Newport, Pa., April 22, 1903. 
Children, Frank Montgomery, Jr., b. January 14-, 1905. 

IN June, '92, Milligan went back to his old position in the 
Newport, Pa., Deposit Bank, leaving it in a couple of 
years to go into railroading at Chicago as Passenger Rate 




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Clerk for the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul, of which line 
he is now Travelling Passenger Agent, having an office, first in 
the Old State House at Boston, and now as above. He is con- 
stantly on the go, and of course his hobby is railroads. His 
bailiwick consists of the New England States and he is travelling 
from Monday morning to Friday night. 



JOHN KEARSLEY MITCHELL 

Residence, 2419 South Street, Philadelphia, Pa. 

JACK MITCHELL lives in Philadelphia and has not re- 
sponded to our numerous calls yet. 

LEVI SCHADE MOCHEL, A.M. 

Minister. Address, Woodburn, Ore. Unmarried. 

MOCHEL, whose name used to be Mogel, by his dilatori- 
ness very nearly got into the same boat with the Foolish 
Virgins of the parable. But he got wise at the last moment — 
in fact after this book had gone to press. 

After a boyhood and school education at Bernville, Pa., at 
the age of sixteen he tried the West as a farm hand. In 1887 
he was graduated from the Keystone Normal School, Pa., en- 
tered Lafayette in 1889, and joined '92 at Princeton in 1890. 
Three years at the Seminary followed, after which he took up 
home mission work. For one year he labored at Delmar Junc- 
tion, Iowa ; for two years at Farley, Iowa, and two at Chehalis, 
Wash. Then he was stationed at Toledo, Wash., for five years, 
with two at Summerville, Ore., and he has just moved to Wood- 
burn in the same State. 



174 PRINCETON NINETY-TWO 



JOHN MONTGOMERY, D.D. 

THE REV. DR. MONTGOMERY was graduated with 
the Class, but he claims to have been an alien and desires 
to have his name taken off the roll. As, however, he is officially 
rated with '92 in the University General Catalogue we note his 
name here as a matter of record, and subjoining a letter re- 
ceived from him last year, consider the case closed. 
" First Presbyterian Church, John Montgomery, Pastor. 

" Findlay, Ohio, May 29, 1906. 
" W. K. Prentice, Princeton, N. J., 

"My Dear Sir: — At various times the past few years I have 
received communications from you implying that I belonged to 
the Class of '92. At the same time I have regularly been rated 
with '91. It certainly is a case of honor overmuch. While in 
Princeton I was with '91 ; but because of some back work my 
' Dip ' was not given till '92. It was not a case of ' condi- 
tion ' but of being an Irregular on entering. My work was 
finished up while in ' Sem.' So to save confusion you had best 
erase my name from the roll of '92. 

" Very truly yours, 

" John Montgomery." 

THEODORE WILSON MORRIS, JR., LL.B. 

Lawyer. Business Address, 32 Liberty Street, New York City. 

Residence, 101 West 80th Street, New York City. 
Married Mary Maynadier Steele, New York City, April 20, 1898. 

Children, Steele, b. August 9, 1901. Alice Schanck, b. July 20, 

1903. 

HERE is another modest lawyer who hasn't much to say 
for himself save that he studied law at the New York 
Law School, is married, has two children, votes as often as the 



BIOGRAPHIES 175 

law allows, and his family is his hobby. Probably the reason 
Titwillow is so shy on language is that he is a member of the 
law firm of Moses, Morris & Westervelt — and anyone knows 
that a fellow placed between the first and the last of this trio 
might just as well quit trying to speak. 



FREDERICK JOHN MOSES, C.E., LL.B. 

Lawyer. Business Address, 32 Liberty Street, New York City. 
Residence, 102 Belmont Avenue, West New Brighton, Staten 
Island, N. Y. 

Married Elizabeth Aimee Lacombe, New York City, N. Y., Novem- 
ber 23, 1898. Children, Henry Lacombe, b. March 21, 1901. 
Frederick John, Jr., b. February 7, 1903. 

HERE is the initial member of the legal firm just spoken 
of. He is as bald as Westervelt is bearded, and runs 
Poet Denniston close for First Baldhead Prize, with Pop At- 
kinson about two hairbreadths behind. Freddy has travelled 
once — out west with the Princeton Geological Expedition of 
1895, as chief tenderfoot. He is a commuter, mowing the 
grass in summer, shaking the furnace in winter, and catching 
trains by the skin of his teeth all the year round. His hobby 
is two small boys of his near acquaintance, and once in a while 
the welkin is split again with his clarion cry S-T-A-R. 



" New York, Nov. 1, 1906. 
" Dear Kelly : 

" This is an autobiography. I came to New York after 
leaving college, studied law at N. Y. Law School, was ad- 
mitted to the bar in June, '94, clerk in various offices from 
1892 to June 1st, 1897; then with T. W. Morris, Jr., '92, 
formed partnership of Moses & Morris. In 1903, J. Wester- 



176 PRINCETON NINETY-TWO 

velt, '92, joined the firm, which has since been Moses, Morris & 
Westervelt. 

" Lived in New York with various Princeton men (among 
whom were J. Williams and Pop Atkinson) until Nov. 23, 1898, 
when I was married to Elizabeth Aimee Lacombe ; have two 
sons (names and ages given on blank already sent you). Lived 
in New York until 1901, when I moved to West New Brighton, 
Staten Island, where I now live. 

" Have lived a very quiet inconspicuous life like most young 
lawyers. I have done nothing that has distinguished me or 
brought me fame or fortune, but feel that the years have not 
been altogether wasted, as I have managed to make a living, 
for which I am duly thankful. 

" Yours very truly, 

" Frederick J. Moses." 



CHARLES OGDEN MUDGE 

Minister. Address, East Downington, Pa. Unmarried. 

IN spite of poor health Charlie has been able to do a good 
deal of hard work in the ministry. He has been pastor of 
the Presbyterian Church of Montpelier, Idaho, and of the 
Presbyterian Church at Nordhoff , California ; and was Stated 
Clerk and Moderator of the Presbytery of Kendall, Synod of 
L T tah. He has travelled widely through the West and has 
worked with the Anti-Mormon party for moral reform. Sev- 
eral articles from his pen have appeared in missionary and 
church magazines. He is at present residing with his father, 
the Rev. Dr. Mudge, at East Downington, but hopes soon with 
restored health to be able to return to the West and continue 
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WILLIAM LEROY MUDGE, A.M. 

Minister. Residence, 108 North Brown Street, Lewistown, Pa. 
Married Laura Maxwell Buck, Bridgeton, N. J., July 25, 1901. 

Children, William Leroy, Jr., b. July 15, 1902. Sidney Reeves, 

b. September 28, 1903. 

BILLY MUDGE took a postgraduate course at Princeton 
after graduation for which he received his Master's de- 
gree in due time, and he was also graduated from the Seminary. 
He was called from the pastorate of the First Church at Phoe- 
nixville to that of the First Church at Lewistown ; and he is 
making good. Indeed, great things are heard of him, and it 
is believed that he is on the way to a big reputation. But like 
the other ministers in the Class, he hates to write letters ; and 
the Class Secretary doesn't own a phonograph outfit into which 
they could talk, so the rest of us must linger in darkness as 
to the real lives of most of our brothers of the cloth. Billy 
is the author of an historical sketch of the Phoenixville Church, 
and of a lecture on " The Land of Evangeline in Story and 
Song " — which, unless memory is entirely at fault, was the 
subject of either a prize essay or poem of his while in college. 

MAX MUNGER 

Salesman in importing. Business Address, 99 John Street, New 
York City. Residence, Truell Inn, Plainfield, N. J. 

Married Sue S. Weber, Plainfield, N. J., June 14, 1904. Children, 
none. 

MUNGER is a salesman in the importing firm of Moore 
& Munger, travelling almost everywhere east of Du- 
luth and New Orleans. He has also been in Canada, and on 
the Continent. He has resided continuously at Plainfield since 



178 PRINCETON NINETY-TWO 

graduation, and has occupied two positions similar to the one 
he now adorns. He is fond of water sports, and is an expert 
swimmer. Theoretically, he is a Democrat ; in practice he is 
a Republican. More than this deponent saith not ; and we had 
hard work getting even that. 



CLARENCE HITCHCOCK NEWTON I 

Missionary. Address, Care A. P. Mission, Kiung chou, Hainan, 

China. 
Married Russella Easton Anderson, Palmyra, Mo., August 20, 1896. 

Children, Harriet Ann, b. May 11, 1898. Frances May, b. 

September 21, 1899- Clare Montgomery and William Russell, 

b. January 28, 1902. 

NEWTON took his theological course at McCormick, 
graduating in 1896. He had spent the summer of 1893 
as a missionary in Indian Territory, and we got a glimpse of 
his work in his letter for our Triennial Record. The years 
1894 and 1895 he spent at Hamilton, Mont., in home mission 
work, being ordained by Butte Presbytery. On graduation 
from McCormick he was appointed by the Foreign Board as 
missionary to Hainan, China, for which country he sailed in 
September, 1896, and where he has labored faithfully and suc- 
cessfully ever since. In 1906 he was granted a leave of absence, 
and we understand was in America, but we have not been able 
to get in personal communication with him, and owe the above 
facts to the courtesy of his father, Edmund B. Newton, Esq., 
of Wilkinsburg, Pa. 



BIOGRAPHIES 179 



JAMES PORTER PARKER, C.E., B.L. 

Lawyer. Office, Denegre Building, New Orleans, La. Residence, 
2520 Prytania Street, New Orleans, La. Unmarried. 

THE HON. J. PORTER PARKER went, in June, '92, 
to the University of Virginia, where he received his 
law degree in 1894. From there he went due south until he 
struck New Orleans. Here he was admitted to the bar, and 
spent his evenings at the Tulane University Law School, taking 
his law degree over again in 1895. Since then it has been the 
busy life for him. He has served on the Committee of the 
Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association for the revision 
of the football rules to eliminate roughness, but does not vouch- 
safe any information as to the results accomplished. From 
1896 to 1900 he was a member of the Louisiana Legislature, 
was elected to the State Senate in 1904, and is now District 
Attorney of New Orleans. He is a Democrat, and has confined 
his oratory to a few political stunts. 



WILLIAM BELFRAGE PARSONS, LL.B. 

Lawyer. Business Address, P. O. Box 555, New York City. 

Residence, Short Hills, Essex County, N. J. 
Married Jean Hegan, New York City, June 7, 1904. Children, 

none. 

PARSONS studied law at Columbia, graduating in 1895, and 
has stayed in New York ever since. He is connected with 
the legal end of the Equitable Life Assurance Society, Policy 
Claims Division. We shall have to investigate him in June. 
He says that the Seth Low Mayoralty Campaign of 1897 gave 
him all the politics he wants, and yet he is a Republican. He 
finds commuting to New York exercise enough, without going 



180 PRINCETON NINETY-TWO 

after any for the fun of it. He also throws a gentle light 
on another of our insurance men, the Hon. Sheep Homans. 
Says Parsons, who has cut his eye teeth all right : " I see 
Homans frequently in business. He generally gets what he 
wants except when he wants to insure me." It must be Parsons' 
specialized training that alone saves him from being victimized 
by Tommy Bell and the Sheep — the lion and the lamb respec- 
tively, we might say, of New York life insurance. 



WILLIAM EDWARD PEARSON 

Civil Engineer. Address, Federal Construction Co., Rockingham, 
N. C. Unmarried. 

HIS Grace, My Lord Pearson, the globe trotter, has 
been caught up with. He has been pretty much all 
over this country, was down in Mexico, and over in the Sand- 
wich Islands ; has been located in Japan twice, and has resided 
in all the coast cities of China, not including four years in 
the Philippines. His specialty is building dams ; they aren't 
in it with the kind we've used chasing him. Get out the atlas 
and follow this route, strewn with His Grace's creations : 
Chicago, where he held an engineering position in the Lunch 
Department of the World's Fair in 1893 ; then due east to 
Bay View, Massachusetts, where for eight years he superin- 
tended the Cape Ann Granite Company's slab slicers ; then 
east or west, as you please, half way round the world to Manila, 
P. I., where he was in charge of the stone work for the new 
harbor, and for three years in the Bureau of Engineering of 
the Civil Government there; then a wild leap back again to 
Yuma, Arizona, where the local dams weren't enough and My 
Lord was asked to construct the best ever, across the Colorado 
River; and then a few miles over to North Carolina, where 
he is doing the same for the Federal Construction Company at 



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Rockingham. This dam, like most others, is " for power pur- 
poses " only. The betting is even that its constructor will go 
to Greenland's icy mountains or India's coral strand next, with 
Patagonia a close second. A partial explanation of his peri- 
patetic manner is the fact that the Democrats of a Republican 
town in Massachusetts once tried to put him up for the Legis- 
lature. He handed them a lemon and since then has been moving. 
And yet it was a pity he refused. There would have been hope 
for Massachusetts with him in the Legislature, Baked Beans 
Conwell writing editorials for the Sunday supplement, Carhart 
deprecating litigation and Earnshaw preaching the Simple 
Life. Pearson should have stayed by New England. He is 
making a collection of " wild-cat " mining stocks (Carhart, you 
remember, is collecting clippings describing other forms of 
bunco). My Lord says they are often very pretty, and it 
doesn't take much to fill an album. 



GEORGE WILSON PEDDIE 

Journalist. Business Address, The Philadelphia Inquirer. Resi- 
dence, 1621 Summer Street, Philadelphia, Pa. Unmarried. 

AFTER a long hunt we finally found " Poos " on the staff 
L of the Philadelphia Inquirer. He has resided in New 
York, St. Louis, London, and Philadelphia since gradua- 
tion, and travelled in Europe in 1901. He says he has also 
travelled " in New Jersey, periodically." The only military 
service he owns up to has been in the battle for bread. He is 
single, but " with hopes." Of the writing of books he is guilt- 
less, but he has done thousands of articles from murders to 
meetings of the W. C. T. U., at space rates. Having never 
made speeches, he has escaped the ripe egg. 



182 PRINCETON NINETY-TWO 



JOHN CHESTER BACKUS PENDLETON 






Stockbroker. Business Address, 15 South Calvert Street. Baltimore, 
Md. Residence, '.207 West Franklin Street. Baltimore, Md. 

Married Mildred Morris. Baltimore, Md., January 81, 1907. Chil- 
dren, none. 

HE stockbroking member of the '92 syndicate that runs 
Baltimore writes: 

" In response to the request of our committee for news con- 
cerning myself, would say that since leaving college have made 
my home continually in Baltimore. But the long, thin John, 
whom you once knew, is no more, as I now weigh two hundred 
and seventeen pounds in my birthday clothes. In the year 
1897 I became a member of the Baltimore Stock Exchange, in 
which business I am still engaged, being associated with the 
office of H. A. Orrick. In January of this year I was lifted 
from the depths of single misery by being married, at which 
event Alf. Riggs ably assisted as my best man. 

" With my very best wishes and good fortune to the members 
of "92, I am most sincerely, 

" Jno. C. B. Pendleton." 



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WARRINGTON WALWORTH PERIAM 

E feel sure that this letter from Periam's sister will be 
read with sincere regret. 



" 55 Roseville Avenue, Newark, N. J., Dec. 29, 1906. 
" My dear Mr. Prentice: 

" In reply to your letter of to-day, I can only say that my 
brother has been ill in a private sanitarium for a number of 
years and there is little hope of his recovery. This will ac- 



BIOGRAPHIES 183 

count to you for the fact that your communications to him 
have been unanswered. " Very truly yours, 

" Annina Periam." 



BOWDRE PHINIZY 

Journalist. Business Address, Augusta Herald, Augusta, Ga. 
Unmarried. 

BOWDRE studied at the University of Virginia, at Johns 
Hopkins and the Harvard Law School, and had some 
notion of becoming a lawyer, but the attractions of journalism 
were too great and he is now president and editor of the 
Augusta Herald — a daily, weekly and Sunday sheet with a 
larger circulation in Augusta, Georgia and South Carolina, 
than all other local papers combined. These facts are culled 
from the headline of the Herald's official stationery. 

" Augusta, Ga., March 1, 1907. 
" Dear Committee : 

" I really am ashamed of myself for putting you fellows to 
this trouble in the vain effort to get a letter and photo and the 
other things you want for the Record. But the truth of the 
matter is that I haven't any photograph, that I am getting so 
fat and bald and bay windowy that as much as I love you and 
now want to please, I wouldn't have one taken for anything. 

" In the next place, for the last month or two, ever since you 
began to write, I have been too busy to even write business 
letters. John D. Rockefeller and Stanley McCormick have been 
spending some time down here, staying at our hotels, playing 
golf at the Country Club, meeting and mingling with our 
citizens, and because I am in the newspaper business, the old 
man has been sending down every week or so a new photograph 
of himself, and with his autograph under it, asking me to use 



184 PRINCETON NINETY-TWO 

it in the place of the one I used the da}' before. Yes, the 
Herald is now Rockefeller's favorite newspaper, and so you can 
see how busy it keeps me living up to the reputation. 

" In addition to that. I have a little railroad proposition on 
my hands — about the same as if you had finally decided to put 
the Pennsylvania in the hands of a receiver — not that you 
wanted to, but just simply because it was your duty as a 
* soldier of the common good. 9 But I enclose the documents 
so that you can see for yourself. Unfortunately Mrs. Hettie 
Green of New York is the principal stockholder in this little 
railroad, which pays 11 per cent, and is steadily piling up a 
surplus and keeps on running its trains off the track and never 
on time. No Southern gentleman likes to hit a lady, but really 
something must be done. 

** But I suppose that I must be frank and really tell you just 
why it has been impossible for me to write before, or even now 
intelligently. The words Southern hospitality and Southern 
courtesy and chivalry were originated right here in Augusta. 
As long as we were simply a small Southern city, everything 
went well. But now at this season every available pine tree 
between here and Aiken, some sixteen miles, shelters on each 
separate limb some Yankee family with millions to burn — if 
thev were only poor and proud it might be different. Now 
you can just imagine what is going to happen to a Southern 
gentleman under these circumstances. No Southern gentleman 
of the old school was ever known to refuse to take a drink. 
especially if there had been any previous feeling about the 
matter, or refuse to show a lady any and all possible considera- 
tion and courtesy permissible under the circumstances. Con- 
sequently from now on till the end of Lent the strain and 
tension is something terrific. 

•" Personally, up to the present time I have managed to hold 
my own and remain single and stick to ' red liquor,' but I can 
foresee mv finish in a few more seasons like this — I'll be marry- 




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ing many millions, playing golf, drinking scotch, and riding 
around in autos. 

" If I am still alive, and can dodge the railroad wrecks, out 
of jail, sober and unmarried, I will certainly be with you when 
the great Record is sprung on the dear old Class of '92. 

" Cordially and sincerely, 

" BOWDRE PhINIZY." 

WILLIAM KELLY PRENTICE, A.M., Ph.D. 

Teaching. Address, 12 Nassau Street, Princeton, N. J. Engaged. 

AFTER delivering the valedictory, our distinguished Secre- 
tary chartered one of the late Hon. Hungry Golden's 
seagoing hacks and set sail for Lawrenceville, N. J., where they 
needed an undermaster. He stayed a year, and then obeying 
the call of the wild, entered the cloistered precincts of the 
Theological Seminary, next door to Egypt. One year of this, 
however, was sufficient to show him that no class secretary could 
be a Seminole with any degree of liberty and comfort ; so he 
went due east about a parasang and took up the instructing of 
the youth in the mysteries of the Greek language and literature. 
In June, 1895, he was in the '92 procession that wandered past 
an outstretched diploma, and acquired the degree of Master 
of Arts. In the summer of '94 he went to Marburg, Germany, 
on a preliminary tour of inspection ; and behold, it was very 
good. In 1897, therefore, he headed for Germany again and 
stayed abroad three years, visiting Italy, Sicily, and Greece 
incidentally, and spending 1899-1900 in Greece, Constantinople, 
Syria, Palestine, and Egypt as a member of the American Ex- 
pedition to Syria. In 1900 he successfully defended his thesis 
at Halle, and was laureated a Doctor of Philosophy. Then for 
five years he did business at the old stand as Assistant Professor 
of Greek in Princeton. In 1905 he went back to Syria as a 
member of the Princeton Expedition. The publication of the 



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results of these expeditions is still being carried on. He was 
promoted to a full professorship in 1905. Besides the above- 
mentioned travels, he has also been to Kansas (in 1906). He 
has lectured profusely on archaeological subjects] and boasts 

that he was never egged but once — in St. Louis, when the 
poliee were stationed at the door to keep the thirstv people 
from going out. His military service has been confined to 
carrying a gun in Syria on the expedition. The *98 men he 
has most frequently seen in recent years have been those who 
haven't paid their subscriptions to the Class Fund. It may just 
as well be noted here that the idea of placing that Fund in a 
dormitory ot' class entries was evolved in his brain. His letter 
follows : 

** Before we came to college, after 1 stopped wanting to be a 
stage driver or a locomotive engineer, I wanted to teach. I 
have had eleven years of experience in this profession, ami I 
still want to teach. Not very well satisfied with my success as 
a teacher, I am well satisfied with a teacher's life and its oppor- 
tunities, ami now. having found someone who will share it with 
me, 1 am very, very happy in it. 

" Since we graduated 1 have been a student again for three 
more years, of which I spent one winter in the Princeton Theo- 
logical Seminary, and two full years and a half in German 
Universities. In the latter I found out what it is to investigate 
without bias, not to prove some doctrine, nor for personal ad- 
vantage, but to approach nearer the truth; there, too. I learned 
that, if there is to be progress, each generation must always 
review human knowledge in the light ot' its own experience. For 
nearly a full year I have been in Syria, as a member of two 
archaeological expeditions which Howard Butler led. We saw 
there cities and villages ot' the fifth and sixth centuries ot' our 
era. deserted, overgrown, dead, but still unburied, many ot' the 
buildings lacking only roofs and floors to be habitable now. In 



BIOGRAPHIES 187 

the ruined streets and houses antiquity seems very near, and 
the life in the modern towns shows, in many ways at least, what 
life in the ancient times was like. The men are still plowing 
with the same old primitive plows, and disputing over the same 
old questions in the shadows of the walls ; the women are still 
grinding the wheat in hand mills and carrying water jars from 
the wells ; and small boys are still put up on the housetops to 
wait till their clothes are washed. 

" And now I'm a professor at Princeton. My teaching is 
only a part of my life ; I am trying to keep up with the progress 
made here and in other countries ; to contribute something, for 
my part, to the knowledge of the world, and to impart to Prince- 
ton undergraduates the desire to do the same. A great change 
has come over the college, and we, as we were fifteen years 
ago, would hardly fit here now. These undergraduates read 
good books, and while they read they think. It is really true, 
what one of our class is reported to have said recently, ' Do 
you know what they've done to Princeton? They've made it a 
damned institution of learning, that's what they've done ! ' 
Only the old cry of Fire, Fresh Fire still brings the windows up, 
and the fellows still sit around in the rooms and talk and talk 
and foster the Princeton Spirit as we did under the old regime. 

" William Kelly Prentice." 

JOHN LUTHER RANKIN, LL.B. 

Lawyer. Office, 811 Prudential Building, Newark, N. J. Resi- 
dence, 107 Halsey Street, Newark, N. J. Unmarried. 

JOHN RANKIN has found it impossible for him to write a 
letter for this Record. He forwards, however, the follow- 
ing data. He studied law at the New York Law School, and is 
practicing at Newark. He travelled in Europe in 1895 and 
in 1900. He is fond of mountain climbing and belongs to the 
Apalachian Mountain Club of Boston. His name is also on 



188 PRINCETON NINETY-TWO 

the members' list of the New Jersey Historical Society, the 
Lawyers' Club of Essex County, the University and Princeton 
Clubs of Newark, and the Princeton Club of New York. He is 
a Republican. 

GEORGE VAN DUSEN RICKERT 

Electric Lighting. Address, Pottsville, Pa. 

RICKERT signed the receipt for a registered letter, but 
, did nothing else for this book. He is manager of the 
Edison Electric Illuminating Company at Pottsville. 

CHARLES ELLET RIEMAN 

Banker. Business Address, Care Henry Riernan & Sons, Baltimore, 
Md., The Western National Bank, Baltimore, Md. Residence, 
Rodgers Forge P. O., Baltimore County, Md. 

Married Elizabeth Taylor Goodwin, Baltimore, Md., February 8, 
1899. Children, none. 

POT RIEMAN is another member of the '92 Baltimore 
syndicate. In 1904 he was President of the Commercial 
and Farmers' National Bank of Baltimore for a while; resign- 
ing, he became a director of the Western National Bank, of 
which he is now President. He is also a director of the Colonial 
Trust Company and of various other local institutions. The 
Baltimore papers tell us that although Mr. Rieman is a young 
man, he has had wide experience in the banking world, and as 
one of the two trustees of his father's large estate he has shown 
exceptional ability. His entrance into the financial field has 
been favorably commented upon. He finds time, however, to 
keep up his connection with the Maryland and Baltimore Clubs 
and the Elk Ridge Fox Hunting and Green Spring Valley Hunt 
Clubs. Fox hunting and farming are his recreations, and his 
specialty in the latter line is the breeding of high-class Jersey 



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cattle. He has visited Europe four times since graduation, and 
is an independent Democrat in politics. 

ALFRED RANDOLPH RIGGS, LL.B. 

Lawyer. Office, 632 Equitable Building, Baltimore, Md. Resi- 
dence, 814 Cathedral Street, Baltimore, Md. Unmarried. 

" My dear Prentice : 

" I am sending under separate cover a photograph of myself 
for the '92 Class Record. You asked in your circular for a 
picture ' suitable for reproduction.' Please publish it anyhow. 
My position is between ' Pot' Rieman and Jesse, so I will not 
be noticed to any extent, except by the more intelligent members 
of the class. Your statement that $6000 remained to be col- 
lected from the class for the dormitory was a little startling, 
and the fifteenth anniversary of the Relief of Princeton, com- 
monly called the Quindecennial of the Class of '92, will be char- 
acterized by enough hold-ups to make the Chicago members 
feel at home. Nothing of great importance has happened to 
me since leaving college. I studied law at the University of 
Maryland and took my degree. Since then I have lived in 
Baltimore and occupied my spare time with Law and Real 
Estate, with an occasional vacation taken to see the world. 

" With kind regards and best wishes to all, I remain, 

" Most sincerely yours, 

" Alfred R. Riggs." 

For the benefit of the " more intelligent members " above 
alluded to, we add that this modest Baltimorean has travelled in 
Europe, Northern Africa and Japan, that when he is at home he 
votes for the best man according to his opinion, that he is still 
athletic, squash and tennis being his specialties, and that he is 
prominently connected with the Baltimore Athletic Club, the 
Maryland and Baltimore Clubs, the Automobile Club of Mary- 



190 PRINCETON NINETY-TWO 

land, the Maryland Jockey Club, and the Municipal Art Society, 
the latter being his snap course. He is, of course, an enthu- 
siastic Princeton rooter, belongs to the local Alumni Associa- 
tion, and never fails to turn up at the Yale games played in 
Princeton. In fact no Princeton-Yale game could be played 
if the Baltimore contingent were not on hand to see it. 



JESSE BRIGHT RIGGS 

Insurance Broker. Office, 702 American Building, Baltimore, Md. 
Residence, Catonsville, Baltimore County, Md. 

Married Charlotte Symington, Baltimore, Md., October 5, 1893. 
Children, Emily Symington, b. January 18, 1895. Marie 
Bright, b. December 22, 1898. Charlotte Symington, b. Sep- 
tember 4, 1906. 

JESSE is secretary and treasurer of the Riggs-Rossmann 
Company of Baltimore, insurance brokers. He declares it 
impossible for him to write a biography of himself for he can- 
not gather any notes sufficiently interesting for publication. 
He is independent in politics and has made his presence felt on 
more than one occasion when serving his country as a watcher 
at the Baltimore polls during elections. He keeps himself in 
trim during the Fall by coaching the football team at Prince- 
ton. His hobby is his country home, his dogs and poultry, and 
automobiling. He is not an author, nor is he a lecturer ; but he 
recalls a speech he used to deliver, beginning in this wise : " If 
the war must go on why put off longer the Declaration of 
Independence? " which he will deliver again if asked, at the 
Quindecennial. 

Jesse is a member of the Baltimore Athletic Club, the Catons- 
ville Country Club, the Princeton Club of New York, and the 
Nassau Club of Princeton. He is also a Mason. 



BIOGRAPHIES 191 



JOHN SINCLAIR ROBERTS, JR., A.M. 

Insurance. Address, Care Thomas Bell, 299 Broadway, New York 
City. Residence, 69 West 48th Street, New York City. Un- 
married. 



Bobby writes: 

" For several years after our farewell smoke I was engaged 
in teaching. Later I occupied a business position in the ac- 
counting department of The American Cotton Co., New York. 
For the past six years I have been the cashier of St. Luke's 
Hospital, New York. I still practice the gymnastics of college 
days and can turn a handspring as easily now as I could fifteen 
years ago. Perhaps the most commendable thing I have done 
is to attend every reunion and smoker of the Glorious Class 
since 1892." 

For six years Bobby has been a member of the Naval Militia 
of New York, and last summer went on the annual cruise with 
the Naval Reserves. He is, we believe, the only gymnast of 
the Class who is still in the business, and he has agreed to turn 
handsprings all the way round the track at the Yale Game 
Pee-rade in June. He keeps himself in shape by doing gymnas- 
tic stunts before breakfast. He belongs to the Naval League, 
the Sons of the Revolution (e. g. handsprings), the West Side 
Tennis Club, and the Englewood Golf Club, and to Prince- 
ton Club of New York and the Nassau Club of Princeton. 
Bobby's record for attendance at class occasions is an enviable 
one. He was off on a week's hunting in the Adirondacks at the 
time of the Hofbrau smoker last November. On January 1, 
1907, he left the Hospital and entered the game of Life Insur- 
ance, under the expert guidance of Tommy Bell. By the time 



1918 PRINCETON NINETY-TWO 

this goes to print we presume another *98 automobile will be soon 
dashing- gaily along the Groat White Way. Jim Westervolt 
says that's what he sees of Tommy. But. then Jim dabbles in 
insurance too. 



EDWARD R. RODERICK 
Physician. Address, 92 South Franklin Street. Wilkes-Barre, Pa. 

GIBRY says he sees Roderick occasionally, but we have not 
succeeded in getting anything from Roderick ourselves, 
and Gibby has not found time to give us any assistance. 

RANDOLPH SAILER, LL.B. 

Lawyer. Office, 929 Chestnut Street. Philadelphia, Pa. Residence. 
2244 North 58d Street. Philadelphia. Pa. (Wynnetield Ave- 
nue Station. P. R. R.) 

Married Mary Sharswood Pairman. Philadelphia. Pa.. November 26, 
1900. Children. Mary Emily, h. February 14, L908. 

BIRDY is as chipper as ever. Not even a decade and a 
half of life in Philadelphia has crushed his spirits. He 
got his law diploma in 1894 from our esteemed contemporary, 
the University of Pennsylvania. Two years later he ex- 
purgated and otherwise adorned Hollingsworth on Contracts, 
and got it. published in Philadelphia. Then two years after 
that he became 2d Lieutenant and Quartermaster of the Second 
Troop. Philadelphia City Cavalry. Otherwise he alleges he is 
his own boss—" hut a poor job." It. is obvious that this allega- 
tion did not have the benefit of revision from headquarters at 
2244 North 58d St.. and that Birdy is another of those blessed 
Benedicts who only imagine they are their M own boss." His 
hobbv is " talking " — same as ever. 



BIOGRAPHIES 193 

" Philadelphia, January 21, 1907. 
" Dear Committee : 

" In belated response to your commands, I return my statis- 
tics and a copy of the only photograph taken in the last ten 
years. Don't judge me too harshly from the photo, but when 
in the neighborhood drop in. At upwards of eleven stone I 
may still be endurable. Added weight and a family only 
slightly repress a buoyant spirit. I have had fifteen years of 
a high average of health and happiness and as much prosperity 
as, perhaps, a lazy man deserves. Financial stringency I have 
learned to bear with outward calm, though with great mental 
unrest. I am not a cynic, an idealist nor an anarchist. A 
goodly share of the ' unearned increment ' would not be spurned. 
' Little I ask, my wants are few,' reveals the nature of my con- 
tentment. The future looks pleasant to me, life is so mighty 
interesting — and full of sudden jolts. I love my home and my 
fellows and sadly miss communion with the sublime spirits of the 
Glorious Class. The latch string is always out — I wish it were 
pulled oftener. My rules on smoking and drinking have been 
correctly stated by Mark Twain. This my biography. 

" In haste, but with no trace of irritability, 

" Yours, always for sublimity and punctuality, 

" Randolph Sailer." 



JOSEPH MITCHELL SHELLABARGER 

Lawyer. Office, 141 Broadway, New York City. Residence, 514 

West 7th Street, Plainfield, N. J. 
Married Belle Van Heusen Davis, October 5, 1897- Children, 

Katharine Belle, b. February 28, 1901. Mary Mitchell, b. 

August 12, 1906; d. August 31, 1906. 

SHELLY is a member of the firm of Hardy & Shellabarger 
of New York. He is a Republican and has never held any 
office, though he takes part in the local politics of Plainfield. 



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He belongs to the Princeton Club of New York. Here is his 
letter : 

" February 13, 1907. 
" Dear Secretary : 

" Your oft-repeated appeals that I ' write ' for the Class 
Record almost removes my deep-seated belief in my mediocrity. 
Alas, I have no war record ; I am not in Tammany councils, al- 
though a New York attorney ; and time has even rusted the 
mandolin strings. 

" However, something must be done, both for your sake 
and mine, to stop this onslaught of postal card reminders. 

" I settled here in the Metropolis after graduation, feeling 
that Princeton was merely across the ferry, and, therefore, 
easily accessible. And so, topographically, it has been ; but, 
somehow, the cherished visits are not frequent, and the duties 
of the daily grind have barred out easy opportunity to return 
and keep up with the wondrous pace of present-day Princeton. 

" It is, therefore, not difficult, for the moment, to overlook 
the bothersome fact that a graduate of fifteen years' standing 
is fast becoming an antique, when I realize that this very truth 
will once more gather together the old crowd at the old stand — 
the comrades of campus days. Don't fail to set aside a gen- 
erous stein for me. 

" My story since graduation is quickly summarized. I am 
a plodding lawyer in the city, in the daytime ; a happy husband 
and father in a Jersey suburb, ' after hours.' The combina- 
tion has made life happy. 

" Here's to '92 ! 

" Sincerely yours, 

" J. M. Shellabarger." 






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WILLIAM M. SKILES 

We have no information regarding Skiles. 

RALPH DUFFIELD SMALL, LL.B. 

Investment securities. Office, 610 Royal Insurance Building, Chi- 
cago, 111. Residence, Belmont and Foxdale Avenues, Win- 
netka, 111. 

Married Ethel Weaver, Chicago, 111., June 7, 1904. Children, 
Elizabeth Weaver, b. April 1, 1905. 

SAM'S reply to our circular was one of the kind that 
cometh not forth but by fasting and by prayer. It 
arrived at the 11th hour and as he intimated that the drinks 
were on him — an obligation to be liquidated on sight — we let 
him in. And it was worth waiting for. Here are a few pre- 
liminaries. The year after graduation Sam wrote a little for 
the newspapers and magazines. We asked him about a fad 
magazine called Four O'Clock, in which he used to be interested 
in those salad days. He threw up his hands : " Lord, I have 
repented ! That part of my past should be allowed to stay 
buried ! " The only other literary effort to which he confesses 
is a series of convincing declamations in 1896, when he went on 
the stump in Illinois and Indiana during the national campaign. 
He is a Republican. He has had experience as a law clerk in 
the office of Lyman & Jackson, as a law partner in the firm of 
Pope & Small, then as manager of the securities department of 
Otis, Wilson & Co., and he is now president of Small Brothers 
& Co. They are strong on the financing of " Water Power 
and Public Service Companies " ; they move in " bank stocks," 
and have their being in " unlisted securities." What connec- 
tion there may be between these three objects of Christian en- 



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deavor only their clients know ; and the latter are standing 
pat. 

The presiding Small brother belongs to the Skokia Country 
Club, the Kenwood and University Clubs, and the Kenwood 
Country Club. He has embalmed his cornet. His recreations 
are golf, tennis, baseball and automobiling, and his hobby is 
collecting dollars. Here's luck to him. If he talks as well as 
his letters read, he will probably sell all his " water " stock to 
the Class next June. 

" Chicago, January 9, 1907. 
" Dear Wilkie, Mike and Howard : 

" After having received your full series of notices, demands, 
threats, orders and entreaties, through a period of five months, 
I now hasten to send my ' vital statistics.' The only photo- 
graph I have is the enclosed, with which occasionally my little 
girl tries to frighten her toy cow, so I hope you will return it, 
as it amuses her and does not hurt the cow. 

" In addition to the statistics already sent you, I regretfully 
confess to more waist, more eyes and less hair than in 1892. 

" After reading through the sixteen ' let it nots ' suggested 
in the Committee's letter of instruction, I tried to write a ' care- 
less sort of breezy ' letter, thinking that was what they were 
trying to hint at, but concluded after submitting my effort to 
Mcllvaine, that I was deficient in ' carelessness ' and couldn't 
deliver the article. You remember that Mcllvaine was the 
editor-in-chief of the first number of The Tiger, and therefore 
a regular trophy room in the hall of humor. His official 
opinion was that my letter was about as mirthful as the man 
whose dentist just informed him the wrong tooth had been 
pulled, so I reposed that letter in a pigeon-hole, marked ' only 
to be opened on my decease,' and am sending by special delivery 
a few facts together with several lies. 

" After the four years' chase for the little roll of parchment 
with a ribbon around it, Billy Wilson and myself went abroad. 



BIOGRAPHIES 197 

Among the items connected with that trip that might find shelter 
under the Committee's phrase ' fit to print,' was Billy's experi- 
ment with his first beard. It was not a success, as it made its 
debut in two colors and looked as if he was carrying the orange 
and black idea to a fine point. 

" On my return I took up the study of law in Chicago, and 
received my education in the office of Lyman & Jackson, and at 
the Lake Forest University Law School. After a long appren- 
ticeship I was entrusted with the trial of some very important 
cases. The first involved four crates of eggs. After several 
changes of venue, new trials and appeals, and ' qui tarn's,' ' ne 
plus ultra's,' and ' absque hoe's,' a decision was finally reached in 
my favor, but it availed nothing, as the eggs, not having the 
necessary patience, had become ' obtrusively inelegant,' and my 
client, the owner, seemed very inappreciative of our victory. 
Being stimulated, however, by this first success, I rapidly ad- 
vanced in my profession until I had a real divorce case. I dis- 
covered that the supposed husband had never been properly 
divorced from his first wife. I performed that operation for 
him and married him to the second wife, who was seeking the 
divorce. I received the following fees — ' Thanks ' from the 
first wife ; copy of the football rules on ' Interference ' from 
the second ; and a wan and tired smile from the husband. This 
proficiency as lawyer, umpire and referee all in one led at once 
to an offer of partnership. After practicing as a partner in 
the firm of Pope & Small for three years I organized a depart- 
ment of Unlisted Bonds with Otis, Wilson & Co. At times, both 
for my customers and for myself, I explored the New York 
Market. When we were through exploring on May 9, 1901, 
we could not tell whether we had reached the North Pole or the 
middle of the earth, but we all immediately yearned for a room 
and bath in the poorhouse. 

" In 1902 the company which is now known as Small Bros. 
& Co. was organized to handle investments. Recently, we have 



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specialized in water power development. Someone has feelingly 
suggested that this was due to a natural curiosity to see how 
most stocks now being sold, were made. 

" I have been out of college long enough to know that the 
college vintage of friendship is a very superior article, and have 
not found its equal ' on tap ' anywhere else. A lifelong Mason, 
apropos of the Princeton spirit, said to me a short while 
ago : " When two strangers meet and they find that they are 
both Princeton men, the good feeling and confidence that imme- 
diately and almost unconsciously springs into being, is to me a 
continual source of surprise. Apparently in that first moment 
of its birth, it is more to be relied upon than the majority of 
friendships that I have met with in any of the Masonic orders, 
where sympathy and loyalty are zealously taught as the first 
precepts.' 

" I am unable, like Jesse Williams, to enter the public library 
of any of our large cities, nonchalantly take down a well-thumbed 
volume and spend a delightful half hour re-reading the first 
page where my name as author appears. Nor have I succeeded, 
like Joe Mayhew, in owning an entire Western town. Nor have 
I followed Howard Butler's example and scratched up an un- 
regenerate old city that was misbehaving itself 2000 years b. c. 
No, I have found the ladder I started to climb all rungs and full 
of splinters at that, and have concluded I wrongfully used my 
spare time kicking the football in front of Reunion, with Runt 
Spooner, Freddy Moses, and Bobby Stevenson, instead of 
practicing with ' Sachus ' Symmes on the old ladders in the gym. 

" Here's to you, '92, and may you all be present on our 
fiftieth anniversary, whatever that may happen to be in Latin. 

" Ralph D. Small. 

" P. S. — Golly, I'm glad to get that letter out of my sys- 
tem.— R. D. S." 

P. P. S.— So are we.— Eds. 



BIOGRAPHIES 199 

URIAH FRANKLIN SMILEY, A.M., D.D. 

Minister. Residence, Cedar Rapids, Iowa. 

Married Agnes Macfarland, Clifton, Pa., July 17, 1895. Mrs. 
Smiley died February 17, 1906, at Cedar Rapids, Iowa.. Chil- 
dren, Helen Agnes, b. July 5, 1896. Blanche Elizabeth, 
b. November 10, 1899. 

SMUG SMILEY entered the Seminary after graduation 
from college and remained there three years. In 1895 he 
was called to the pastorate of the First Presbyterian Church 
at Fort Collins, Colorado, where he preached a year. In 1896 
he accepted a call to the Holmesburg Presbyterian Church at 
Philadelphia, and remained in this charge until 1902, from 
which date he has been pastor of the Westminster Presbyterian 
Church at Cedar Rapids, Iowa. He was honored with the 
degree of Doctor of Divinity by Lenox College, Iowa, in 1905. 
He is a member of the Princeton Club of Cedar Rapids. Noth- 
ing doing for a hobby — " the people do not allow such follies 
in this Western country." 



FRANK W. SMITH, J 



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Engineer. Residence, South Fork, Cambria County., Pa. 
Married May M. Fitch, Elensburg, Pa., January 15, 1905. Chil- 
dren, none. 

IT will be remembered that our ex-President, when last heard 
from, was treasurer of the Smith Bare Company, a lumber 
firm with offices in the Betz Building, Philadelphia, over the 
Rathskeller. He left this position to go into railroad engineer- 
ing with the N. Y. C. & H. R. R. R., and is now a supervisor 
in the P. R. R. This job he says gives him plenty of exercise; 
but it does not prevent his cultivating his hobby — one of 
Smiley's " follies " — cocker spaniels. He is also a member of 
the National Guard of Pennsylvania, 1st Regiment. 




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WILLIAM WATSON SMITH 



Lawyer. Office, 1558 Frick Building Annex, Pittsburg, Pa. Resi- 
dence, 5023 Castleman Street, Pittsburg, Pa. 

Married Florence Louise Aiken, Pittsburg, Pa., September 20, 1898. 
Children, William Watson, Jr., b. June 13, 1899; d. May 14, 
1903. 

THE author of " George Washington's Last Pants " has 
been living in Pittsburg ever since our Triennial Record 
was published. But now-a-days he doesn't have to cut off his 
letters abruptly because the chief clerk is calling him to throw 
coal on the office fire, or to dust the ink pots. Not much. 
Here is his present letter " fifteen years after " — very brief, 
very serious. Have G. W.'s Last Pants been laid aside for- 
ever ? 

" Gentlemen : 

" Since the fall of 1892 I have been living in Pittsburg, 
which is a first-class place, all reports and New York news- 
papers to the contrary notwithstanding. 

" I was admitted to the bar in December, 1894. Since then 
I have been practicing law alone until April 1, this year, when, 
upon the death of Mr. William Scott, '68, I formed a partner- 
ship with Mr. George B. Gordon, the surviving senior member 
of the law firm of which Mr. Scott was a member. My life has 
been rather quiet and uneventful — anything worth mentioning 
is contained in the answers to the list of questions enclosed. I 
have had very fair health, have worked reasonably hard, and 
am not dissatisfied with life. 

" Yours very truly, 

" William Watson Smith." 



BIOGRAPHIES 201 

It may be added that in 1899 Reddy was an Instructor in 
the Pittsburg Law School, and from 1899 to date has been 
Assistant City Solicitor of Pittsburg. He travelled in Eng- 
land and on the Continent in 1904, and again in 1906. He 
plays golf once each Spring and once each Fall, and then 
swears off. He has no hobby — is looking for a good one and 
is open to suggestions. 

CHARLES WOOD SOMERBY, A.M., LL.B. 

Lawyer. Residence, 1501 Mount Curve Avenue, Minneapolis, Minn. 
Married. (?) „ 

CHEW received his legal training at the University of 
Minnesota. In 1898 he was Assistant Prosecuting At- 
torney of Hennepin County, Minn. From 1899 to 1905 he 
was Assistant Attorney-General of the State. Ed. Duffield tells 
us he tried to see Chew in St. Paul recently, and called on him 
four times in the two days he was there, but could never find 
him in. He must have either a very large practice or none at 
all. Everyone seems to know him there, and he appears to 
have a number of friends. Judging from the fact that he 
has a telephone at his residence as well as at his office, Duff, 
who is the Newark Sherlock Holmes, believes Chew is married. 
If you fellows can find out from the following document what 
he is doing now, you are welcome. We print it verbatim, ques- 
tions and answers. 

CLASS OF '92. 

STATISTICS FOR THE QUINDECENNIAL RECORD. 

Name: Charles Wood Somerby. 

1. Are you married, engaged or single? Yes. 

2. If married, give your wife's maiden name in full, and the 
place and date of your wedding. Yes. 



802 PRINCETON NINETI-TWO 

3. If you have had any children, give the full name and 
date of birth of each, and if any has died, the date of death. 
Yes. 

4. What is your profession or business: If you are a gen- 
tleman ot' leisure, what are you doing to pass the time away? 
No. 

5. What is your business address? Yes. 

6. Your present residence? Yes. 

7. Did you study at any educational institution after leaving 
Princeton? If so. where did you study? What degrees did 
you receive? Many. 

S. What books or articles have you written? Give the titles 
in full, with the dates and places of publication. What lectures 
have you delivered, or speeches? Were you cheered, egged, 
or suffered? A few checks. 

9. What part have you taken in politics? What public of- 
fices have you held? Have you simply worked for the good 
ot' the party, or have you worked the party for your good? 
Which party? Was President of the United States from Sep- 
tember. 1888, to June. 1892. 

10. What military service have you seen in the army. navy, 
or State militia? Saw P. Yredenburgh once in uniform. 

11. Where have you travelled, and when? Cliffton, Eliza- 
beth. Guttenberg. See James Porter Parker for details. 

l!-2. Where have you lived, and what positions have you oc- 
cupied since you left college? No. 

IS. To what clubs or societies ot' any sort do you belong? 
Sure. 

14. What exercises do you take, and in what recreations do 
you indulge? No. 

15. What is your hobby? " Any man who is any good is 
a crank about something." Xo. 

16. What *9£ men do you see frequently? If you know any 
gossip about them this is your chance, viz: — 



F. W. Smith, Jr. W. W. Smith 






SAID TO BE 

C. W. SoMERBTf C. P. Spooler 



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BIOGRAPHIES 203 

I have tried to keep up a constant correspondence with every 
member of the Class, but we only get the mails here three times 
a year and it has been rather difficult. Much of my informa- 
tion is years old and has come to me from various sources. 
Many ought to be dead since I last heard. Kelly Prentice has 
written regularly each week and I have always been interested 
in his letters. 

Big Bess came out with his private car last Fall — come 
again, Bess. 

Tommy Bell went through here several years ago. He was 
shot at a number of times, but bullets glanced off. 

Ben Ames was in town for a few hours a while back — said 
he was glad to see me, but Benny had been drinking a little 
and I didn't take offense at what he said; Jim Westervelt has 
called many times — Jim is getting rich ; Josie Hoffman is horse 
doctor for the Nebraska football team; Mcllvaine is prosper- 
ing in Chicago, — is attorney for beef packers, — says he met 
Joe Huston recently and that Joe was smoking a cigarette; 
Mike Bergen scuttled a Camden ferry-boat in 1899 ; Redney 
Hart was kidnapped in Philadelphia, — friends refused to offer 
any reward; Conny is running a country newspaper and Big 
Bess says Duke Burleigh has recently bought the New York 
Standard; Max Farrand is on the police force in Boston ; 
Jimmy Parker is State President of the Sunshine Society of 
La. ; Jack Mitchell is in the foreign mission work ; John Pendle- 
ton will become Secretary of State at the next Cabinet turn- 
over ; Farmer Brown is cashier at the Moulin Rouge ; Bowdre 
Phinizy is clerking in a grocery store ; Dick Woods is a fireman ; 
Alf Riggs is a Prof, at Johns Hopkins ; Rusty Miller is a 
safe mover ; Pat Irish is Principal of a High School ; Zwei 
Beer is on the stage ; Wally Aikman is head of a Trust Co. ; 
Wilkie Collins is a bar-tender; Jess Riggs is captain in the 
Salvation Army Volunteers of America ; Shep Homans is a 
night clerk ; Charlie Spooner is instructor at a Ladies' Gym- 



204- PRINCETON NINETY-TWO 

nasium in Milwaukee ; Truby is a train dispatcher ; Jack 
Adams went down with the Maine ; Dunlop is a floorwalker and 
P. Rieman is a sign painter ; Chip DeLong is a political pris- 
oner in Russia ; Herb Carter is a bell-boy and Billy Stump is 
manager of a Savings Bank. Easton, Havens, and Howie are 
Railroad Presidents. 

I am always glad to hear about my classmates and I often 
wonder why someone does not get out a monthly record. It 
seems to me if placed in the right hands it would be a great 
success. I never expect to attend any reunions, but I wish that 
someone would take the matter up. If the Class would only 
incorporate under the laws of New Jersey with a large capital 
stock, then issue bonds secured by a mortgage on something, 
naming Joe Huston as Trustee, then elect a board of managers 
and editors and the thing would be done. Each one in the Class 
would at once subscribe for as many copies as there are mem- 
bers in his family, and now that Conny and the rest of the class 
are mostly married there is no doubt that the subscription list 
would eventually become very large. As a suggestion I think 
that if Mogel, Mudge, Peddie, and Tindle could be induced to 
take hold they would be the right men to edit and manage it. 
With kind regards, 

C. W. SOMERBY. 

P. S. I haven't had a picture taken for many years now, but 
I send you the best one I could find. 

I lost the fifteen or twenty copies of questions which were 
sent me, and had to make up the foregoing list from memory. 



BIOGRAPHIES 205 

CHARLES PHILIP SPOONER, A.M., LL.B. 

Lawyer. Office, 377 Colman Building, Seattle, Wash. 
Married Susie Main, June 11, 1896. Children, Dorothy, b. Novem- 
ber 1, 1897. Annie Main, b. June 1, 1906. 

THE King of the Runts' understudy learned enough 
law at the University of Wisconsin in the two years, 
1892 to 1894, to get the degree of LL.B., and to practice at 
Madison until 1896; then he went to that other town in Wis- 
consin that has been made famous by something else, and there 
he practiced some more until 1905, when he left Wisconsin and 
went to Seattle, where he has become famous enough to appear 
in a galaxy of " Prominent Members of the Seattle Bar " pub- 
lished by the Seattle Post-Intelligencer in a large volume, called 
"Prosperous Washington" (25c.) Replying to our question 
about books or articles written, lectures and speeches delivered, 
cheered, egged, or suffered, he says " Get out ! ! " Evidently 
he has been there. Politically, he styles himself " a friend of 
the people." What military service seen? " Have seen a num- 
ber of lobsters in service, but have escaped myself." He belongs 
to the Rainier Club, the University Clubs of Seattle and Mil- 
waukee, and the Seattle Golf and Country Club. Golf is his 
hobby. He dropped baseball about the end of Senior year. 
We dragged the following from him by dint of postal cards 
and other aids to reflection: 

" The only thing that prevents the writing of this letter to 
the class being a positive pleasure is the fact that I am able 
to point to so little in my record that seems worth offering. 
Still, the class of '92, as I knew it at the end of our course, 
was very sweet in its charity toward its members and I have no 
reason to doubt that the past fifteen years have broadened and 
made permanent that charity, so I'll tell what little there is 
to tell about myself. 

" In the Fall of 1892 I entered the Law School of the Uni- 



206 PRINCETON NINETY-TWO 

versity of Wisconsin, and was graduated therefrom in June, 
1894. I practiced law in Madison, Wis., as a member of the 
firm of winch my father was the head, from 1894) to 1896, in 
which latter year I was married and moved to Milwaukee, 
where I practiced until September, 1905, when I removed to 
Seattle. In nearly all of my Milwaukee practice of nine years, 
I was associated with Clarke M. Rosecrantz, who was a law 
classmate of mine. We were attorneys for the street railway 
system of Milwaukee, which is very extensive, and which involved 
a great deal of trial work. I found that I was drifting into 
a specialty, and as I have a great love for the general practice 
of law, I left our practice to my partner and came out here. 
My partnership association here has been very satisfactory 
from every point of view, and I am now quite certain the change 
was a wise one. Our business is varied and all that I could ask. 

" Seattle is apparently a great city in the making. It is so 
completely sui generis that comparison is difficult and of little 
use. There are about 200,000 people here, but everything is 
done on the theory that it's to be another New York. Some of 
this is laughable — much of it is wonderful. One of the prin- 
cipal reasons for my leaving Wisconsin was the prominence of 
my father there. I thought I'd get as far from it as possible. 
You have to ' make good ' here, and when you do you are 
credited with it. 

" I have two little daughters, one nine years old and one 
about the same number of months. There is only one thing I 
regret, about them. They can never be Princetonians. 

" As I look back over the years that have passed since we left 
Princeton, I can see little of which I have thought I had reason 
to complain which was not my own fault. I find innumerable 
things for which I am thankful, and which I did not deserve. 
I hope to see you all in June, and if I am not there you may 
be sure that it was impossible. God bless you all. 

" Charles P. Spooxer. 

" Seattle, Jan. 8, 1907." 



BIOGRAPHIES 207 

ROBERT ALSTON STEVENSON, A.M. 

Teacher. Business Address, 425 Madison Avenue, New York City. 

Residence, 57 High Street, Yonkers, N. Y. 
Married Helen Cole, Yonkers, N. Y., June 14, 1906. Children, 

none. 

BOBBIE STEVENSON studied an extra year at Princeton, 
one more at Johns Hopkins, another at Columbia, and 
also one in Germany. He is now headmaster of the Allen- 
Stevenson School, N. Y. City, and writes as follows : 

" 57 High Street, Yonkers, N. Y., February 16, 1907. 

" After many days here goes — by special delivery ! 

" Just why I went back to Princeton in the fall of '92 to 
take a graduate course I have never been able to decide. It 
wasn't because there were any graduate courses in Princeton — 
although Andy West was beginning to have dreams even at that 
time about a Graduate School. Andy told me to sit down in 
a comfortable chair and read books, which I did at 7 Edwards 
Place with no direction and very little system. But I enjoyed 
it. Jesse Williams plied his pen in the room above, busy with 
the Princeton Stories, and Max Farrand, when he was not dis- 
cussing football policy with Tracy Harris and Aleck Moffat, 
played with mysterious tomes from the library. 

" We had a good time — the Shanty was a convenient ren- 
dezvous for men who came back to the burg — but the necessity 
of paying for it caused me to take on a tutoring job at Law- 
renceville. The job was rich in experience, was in fact the be- 
ginning of work that I have been doing ever since — teaching 
boys — and was pecuniarily successful in that it enabled me to 
indulge in an operation for appendicitis, at a time when there 
was some distinction in an appendixless existence. 

" The fall of '93 found me at Baltimore taking courses in 



208 PRINCETON NINETY-TWO 

the Historical department of Johns Hopkins under Dr. Her- 
bert Adams. The atmosphere of the department and Dr. 
Adams' example gave me my first inkling of what graduate work 
meant, and through the Alpha Delta Phi Fraternity, of which I 
became a member. I saw a good deal of the undergraduate life. 
Off days I played with Billy Wilson, Roy Gresham, and Johnny 
Stork. Billy was dallying with the Law. Roy wasn't quite sure 
whether he would eventually become an historian or a theo- 
logian, and Johnny was working up a spring-water business. 

" Everything German was popular at the University at that 
time and Dr. Adams advised those of us who didn't know what 
we wanted to do in the way of teaching, to go to Germany 
ami find out. I went with a boy who needed supervision. I 
needed the money. We reached Berlin in October, after a 
summer in the Canada woods, where the boy and I got fairly 
well acquainted, and, coached by Jesse Carter. '93. and Wis 
Hodge. I matriculated at the University. It was exciting. 
My knowledge of German was limited. It consisted of the 
words necessary in a polite request for two beers, which I 
found was not adequate to express my feelings when the Rector 
gave me the glad hand of welcome. Consequently I took 
everything for granted and proceeded to learn German fran- 
tically, attending lectures meanwhile. 

" Little by little the lectures became intelligible, and before 
the end of the semester I was able to glean a few gems of 
thought out of what I heard. At its close Wis Hodge and I 
went to Heidelberg, where I remained for more than a year, 
attending lectures, making explorations to various parts of 
Germany, and cultivating my mind spasmodically. I took one 
long walking trip in Switzerland and narrowly escaped meeting 
Magie in Paris. 

" Max Farrand was at Heidelberg at the time, learning a 
lot of things. Perhaps he will tell you of a Rheinfahrt we 
made. We visited all of the famous vineyards from Worms to 
Cologne and floated the distance in a skiff. We recommend 



BIOGRAPHIES 209 

the trip to those who wish to become experts in the use of Rhein 
wine. 

" In the spring of '96 I returned to the United States, and 
spent a month in Princeton in an endeavor to get the German 
out of my system. I succeeded, and in the Fall took on another 
tutoring job in New York, attending lectures at Columbia 
when I could. Finally I succumbed to an attack of philan- 
thropy, and took up residence in an East Side Settlement. 
There I found things to interest me and learned several things ; 
among others that the average man that I met there knew a 
great deal more about politics and sociology than I did ; that he 
was not a strange animal and that I was not destined to uplift 
humanity. I didn't even jar it. So I stopped trying to be 
philanthropic and while I remained in residence devoted myself 
to getting acquainted with a group of hard-working men, with- 
out trying to investigate them. 

" Meanwhile I tutored boys for a living. Gradually my work 
enlarged until I had a fair-sized following. I liked the work, 
and for four or five years pegged away at my job, spending my 
summers in the woods and my winters pounding at the boys. 
Nothing of particular interest happened. I wrote a few stories 
and articles which were accepted, managed to get up a case of 
neurasthenia, and worried along contented and happy. 

" Now and then I saw something of various members of the 
class, the fellows who turn up at the Princeton Club — and may 
I be permitted to observe here that as a class I think that we 
are wofully lacking in any system which brings us together. If 
we have a system it is rotten. Twice and only twice since our 
Decennial we have been summoned, not for the purpose of 
good cheer unalloyed, but to be asked just about the time we 
were getting well in touch with men we had not seen for years, 
to be pathetic over mere sordid money matters. There are 
those who say they have been stung. Address C. A. McWil- 
liams. 

" But to proceed. Much to the disgust of James Westervelt, 



210 PRINCETON NINETY-TWO 

who has never learned to like Harvard men, I formed a part- 
nership with one, and with him I am now wrestling with a 
school for boys in New York. 

" You ask me whether I have any pet theories about second- 
ary education. No ! All I know is that with the kindergarten 
at one end teaching boys scientific methods of play and the uni- 
versity at the other raising requirements for entrance every 
rainy day and screeching for a display of intellectual intelli- 
gence at the age of seventeen, the secondary teacher is kept 
awake nights. I am not yet bald, however, and I haven't grown 
taller. We try to turn out a good product and expect the 
Preceptorial System to do the rest. 

" Married life ! Yes. I was married last June to Miss Helen 
Cole, of Yonkers, and I can't complain. It has broadened my 
outlook. Not until this winter have I interested myself in the 
Anthracite problem and the price of kindling wood. I am living 
in Yonkers, commute with precision, and see more or less of 
John Kouwenhoven, who is rapidly becoming It in the medical 
profession in these parts. 

" There isn't much more to tell. I went abroad again four 
years ago and walked pretty much all over England. Walking 
is my fad. The fifteen years since graduation have passed 
quickly. Playing with boys has kept me young. I haven't 
done anything startling and I find the game of living with its 
ups and downs good fun and worth while. I am trying to build 
up a school that will fit boys for college in a way that includes 
more than a mere stuffing of their heads, and I like my job. 

" By way of playtimes ; I am a member of the Players' Club 
of New York, and I spend my summers in the open. I am 
somewhat foolish on the subject of trout-fishing and have nearly 
reached the stage when I shall make my own flies, and I am no 
slouch of a carpenter. 

" And there you are. 

" Sincerely yours, 

" R. A. Stevenson." 







H. A. Stevenson 





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JOHN WILLIAM STORK 

Mineral Water Business. Office, 424 North Charles Street, Balti- 
more, Md. Residence, 513 Cathedral Street, Baltimore, Md. 

Married Hortense Rogers Mclntire, Baltimore, Md., January 23, 
1907. Children, none. 

JOHN STORK is still liquidating as the proprietor of the 
Chattolanee Springs Water Company. In support of his 
contention that the sparkling beverage he dispenses is not de- 
rived from his cellar spigot, the Maryland Geological Survey 
reports for him that " A careful study of the geological struc- 
ture, over an area of more than ten square miles on all sides 
of the Springs, clearly shows that the waters of the Springs 
come from a DEEP-SEATED SOURCE, AND ARE NOT 
DERIVED FROM ANY SURFACE FLOW." 

Another tenstrike for the '92 Baltimore Syndicate. With 
this fountain of life at hand no wonder Long John Pendleton 
weighs 217, and Jesse Riggs has taken on weight, and Billy 
Wilson's hair is still yellow, and — well, Chattolanee Spring de- 
serves all the credit. John is trying to get the Quindecennial 
Reunion Committee to substitute demijohns of his dope for the 
customary buckets of suds at headquarters, but in deference to 
the tastes of C. P. Butler, the Rev. Dr. Smiley, Leroy Gresham, 
Bixler, and other Kentucky Colonels, this blatant attempt at 
reform is to be kicked in the slats. We recommend copious 
draughts of this tonic, however, to those helpless choristers, 
Attorney Church, Judge Duffield and B. & 0. Wilson — the Only 
Original Triolets. For mark this letter and tell how else this 
songster acquired his late-born voice. 

"To the Class of '92: 

" My life since leaving college has been of a very simple and 
uneventful character. I studied law for a short while ; then 



212 PRIXCETOX NINETY-TWO 

took hold of a Spring- Water Company, which I have run and 
owned ever since. I probably have, therefore, entered a busi- 
ness no other one of my classmates has ever even considered. 
I feel that I have succeeded in what I have undertaken. If 
your list of inquiries had asked for the degrees and honors 1 
had not taken, I could have given you a longer and more de- 
tailed answer. My recreation has been music, and had I sung 
as much at college as I have sung since, I might have had the 
honor of being a member of the Glee Club, especially as tenors 
were at that time so scarce. [And this when we had Bob Ben- 
nett and Tracy McDowell and Baron Kouwenhoven — who 
wasn't a tenor! — Eds.] I can say in closing that should any 
of you call this way I can treat you to a beverage that will 
leave you none the worse for wear. 

"John W. Stork." 



IRVING W. STREET 

Real Estate Dealer. Office, 6 '2 Genesee Street, Ltica, X. Y. Resi- 
dence , L 21 Summit Place. Utiea. N. Y. 

Married Eloise Wicks. Ctica, X. Y.. July 18. 1905. Children, 
Elizabeth Head. b. August 27, 1906. 

IN preparation for the real estate business Street studied at 
McCormick Seminary, Chicago, at Berlin, and at Jena, in 
Germany — following in some measure the method of Laughlin. 
In addition he was Secretary of the Y. M. C. A. in Auburn, 
X. Y., and he also lived at Lima, Ohio. He saw a sham battle 
in Chicago in 1893 while he was Superintendent of the Prince- 
ton Exhibit at the World's Fair, and dropped military service 
forthwith. He is a plain Republican voter when he likes their 
nominees, and has written nothing but checks — " always pro- 
tested." 



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WILLIAM STUMP, M.D. 

Physician. Address, Larchmont, N. Y. Unmarried. 

STUMP was graduated from the Medical School of the Uni- 
versity of Pennsylvania in 1895, having made a good 
record for himself. He also took a five months' course at Johns 
Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore. He has been located at Larch- 
mont for several years. He is an enthusiastic yachtsman and, 
of course, is a member of the local yacht club, one of the best 
known in the country. 



JOSEPH GASTON SYMMES, A.M. 

Minister. Residence, The Manse, Lower Valley Presbyterian 

Church, Califon, N. J. 
Married Josie Gardner, Mt. Vernon, N. Y., September 5, 1900. 

Children, Mary Sharpsteen, b. April 16, 1906. 



S 



ACKUS is the same big hearty Satchelas he always was, 
and we print his letter just as it is. 



" After graduating from college in 1892 I entered Prince- 
ton Theological Seminary in the Fall, and spent the year 
'92-'93 in that institution. The year of '93-'94 I taught in 
St. Albans School, at Radford, Virginia. I returned to Prince- 
ton Seminary in the Fall of '94, where I was graduated in 
1897. During the summer I travelled in Europe. November 
the 30th, 1897, I was installed over the churches of Jackson- 
ville and Providence, not far from Burlington, New Jersey. 
From this charge I was called, in June, 1904, to my present 
pastorate over the Lower Valley Church of Califon, New Jer- 
sey, and the Cokesbury Church, with the manse situated at 
Califon. 



214 PRINCETON NINETY-TWO 

" Tho my life has been passed in comparative quiet since 
graduation it has not been an idle one, but filled with the active 
duties of a country pastorate. I have passed through no ex- 
perience which has soured me on life, or aged my spirits. My 
days are full of joys, and the doing of those things which bring 
me ever increasing delight. I will not take second place to 
any man in the class in my love for dear old Princeton, tho 
I be one of her numerous sons who cannot express his love in 
a very substantial manner. I mean, however, to have a part in 
the building of the Memorial and it shall be as much as I can 
possibly scrape together. Please inform me if the first of 
January, 1907, will be too late for me to send a gift to the 
' Fund.' Hurrah for Princeton and the Glorious Class ! If 
sound will do any good I can give that." 



W 



FRANCIS E. TALCOTT 

E have no word from Talcott save the following note 
from Mrs. Talcott, received in 1899: 



" 7 West Fifty-Seventh Street, New York. 
" Mr. W. K. Prentice : 

" My dear Sir: — Mr. F. E. Talcott resigned some time ago 
from the Princeton Association and has lived out of town for 
the past five years. Will you kindly make note of this fact that 
notices of various kinds may be discontinued, and oblige, 
" Yours very truly, 

" " H. E. Talcott." 




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CHARLES W. TINDfeE 

Office, 223 Bakewell Building, Pittsburg, Pa. Residence, 100 
North Negley Avenue, Pittsburg, Pa. Unmarried. 

TINDALE was in the Tin Plate and Sheet Steel manufactur- 
ing business until about July 1, 1900 ; since then he has 
been a gentleman of leisure and spends his time travelling. He 
has thus far been all over the United States, Mexico, Canada, 
and Central America, and almost all of Europe. He is very 
seldom in Pittsburg. 

CHARLES IRVIN TRUBY 

Minister. Address, Winchester, Ind. 

Married Mabel Phares, Indianapolis, Ind., May 11, 1899. Chil- 
dren, none. 

TRUBE is as uncommunicative now as he was when the 
last Record was published. He admits having studied 
at McCormick Seminary, Chicago, and says he has resided since 
graduation at Chicago, Fowler, and Winchester. He has found 
the training acquired by wresting the Whig Hall Lynde De- 
bate appointment from Jim Westervelt in 1892 of great value 
in his labors. 



EDGAR TROTTER VAN DEUSEN, A.M 



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Writing a book on Investments. Address, 102 Waverly Place, New 
York City. Unmarried. 

VAN DEUSEN was so busy on his book that he did not 
send in his material for this Record until we had gone to 
press. We are able to report that since graduation he has 
resided in the States of New York, New Hampshire, Iowa and 



216 PRINCETON NINETY-TWO 

Missouri, and has occupied various positions of honor or 
emolument as school teacher, law clerk, private secretary, col- 
lege and university instructor, lecturer, and writer. In 1901 
he received his Master's degree from New York University, and 
he was, for a while, Instructor in Public and Private Finance at 
Dartmouth. He has lectured on investments in the School of 
Commerce, New York University, and at the University of 
Missouri on economic history and railroad history and finance; 
and he is at present engaged in the preparation of a book on 
Investments " treated from standpoint of an impartial student 
of truth rather than of a baiting broker or a preying promoter 
or a popular penny-a-liner." This, which no gentleman's 
library should be without, is to be published during the present 
year, after which its author intends to form a connection with 
a financial house — but not of course as a " baiting broker." 
His other contributions to economic literature are listed in the 
Hot Air Furnace, to which readers are respectfully referred. 



JOHN VAN NESS, A. M. 

Minister. Residence, Holmesburg, Philadelphia, Pa. 
Married Claudia M. Dorland, Washington, D. C, February 1, 1899- 
Children, none. 

JOHN VAN NESS informs us he is " preaching the ever- 
lasting gospel," and has " no leisure time." He went 
through Princeton Seminary and then became pastor of Ta- 
koma Park Church, at Washington, D. C. For the past four 
years he has been pastor of the Holmesburg Church at Phila- 
delphia. He says he has so many hobbies that none seems 
specially prominent. He ought to hand a few out to Cedar 
Rapids, Iowa, or to W. Watson Smith. " Bob Bennett is the 
'92 fellow I see most frequently. He preaches in Germantown 
— and is all right. See John T. Dunn often ; he is in Scranton 



BIOGRAPHIES 217 

making money. Shook hands with Howland Hanson at the 
General Assembly's meeting at Des Moines, la., last spring — 
he is pastor of a large Baptist Church there." 

" Philadelphia, Dec. 15, 1906. 
" Dear Fellows of '92 : 

" Prentice insists on a ' personal letter.' We made no mis- 
take in electing him Class Secretary. He is accomplishing 
what no other mortal could possibly accomplish for our Class. 
I have my grave doubts, however, that my personal letter could 
be of any possible interest to anyone, but — here goes. 

" Everything in my life really centers around one happy 
day in February, 1899, when I took unto myself a wife. Things 
have been different since that immortal day, and decidedly bet- 
ter. R. P. D. Bennett was one of the ushers at my wedding ; 
he and I roomed together for three years in Old Sem., and later 
both married Washington girls. Just before I was married I 
had a fine trip across the country with the bride-elect and her 
parents to the Pacific Coast, taking in Southern California, 
Seattle, Salt Lake, and the Yellowstone Park. Later we set- 
tled down to a very happy life among a kind people in Wash- 
ington City, where I spent seven years. In 1902 we came to 
Philadelphia in order to be nearer Princeton and Bennett. Two 
years later we took rather an extended trip abroad, visiting the 
principal ports on the Mediterranean and making a tour of 
Palestine. We also spent some time in Constantinople and 
Cairo and Rome, and returned with new vigor for the ' com- 
mon deeds of a common day.' 

" Philadelphia is near enough to Princeton to make it pos- 
sible for one to run up once in a while, and I am always de- 
lighted to meet the Ninety-Two men in that dear old college 
town which grows dearer every year. 

" Yours for Princeton and Ninety-Two, 

" John Van Ness." 



218 PRINCETON NINETY-TWO 



PETER VREDENBURGH, LL.B., U.S.A. 

United States Army. Official Address, War Department, Wash- 
ington, D. C, or 1 Montgomery Street, Jersey City, N. J. 
Residence, 868 West End Avenue, New York City. Unmarried. 

IN reply to question No. 1 — " married, engaged, or single? " 
— Pete lets loose this broadside : " When it comes to the 
' fatuous delirium,' the celestial idiocy that queers the brain 
and impairs the vision — why, I have been unlucky, that's all. 
Mumps have been mine and measles, and I have fooled with 
grapejuice, but that other drunkenness has been denied me." 
Then, as if unregretful that mumps, measles and grapejuice 
have failed to end with matrimony, he bursts into song: 

" I've taken my fun where I've found it; 
I've rogued and I've ranged in my time; — " 

We take it, however, that he is not as one without hope, for 
he continues: 

" There's times when you'll think that you mightn't, 
There's times when you'll know that you might; 
But the things you will larn from the Yellow an' Brown 
They'll 'elp you an 'eap with the White ! " 

Which suggests that this " soldier, soldier come from the 
wars " will answer " Present " when the time comes. Leaving 
Kipling, he goes on to say that he studied law in the New York 
Law School, but since the outbreak of the Spanish War has 
been in the military service of the United States. He has 
written no books, but was the author of several articles in the 
Manila Freedom and Cable News of November, 1899, and May, 
1902, on prevailing conditions. During the presidential cam- 
paign of 1895-1896 he was moved to deliver speeches on Free 
Silver, and adds the sad comment " melancholy farce — ripe 



BIOGRAPHIES 219 

eggs." Meanwhile he was captain, you remember, of the gal- 
lant Vredenburgh Rifles, or Company E, 7th Regiment, New 
Jersey National Guard, to whose annual military reception 
and exhibition drill at the Freehold Opera House in February, 
1894, the Class was invited too late to accept. When the 
Spanish War came on Peter volunteered as Captain of the 3d 
New Jersey Infantry, his commission dating May 12, 1898. 
In February of the following year he was honorably mustered 
out and was appointed a major by the Military Board, being 
thus the youngest major in the National Guard. He had seen 
service during the intervening nine months, but we have not 
been able to get any account of it. Indeed, we haven't any 
hint from Peter himself that he has ever done anything worth 
notice, and the facts on which the following story is based are 
due largely to the kindness of his mother, Mrs. W. H. Vreden- 
burgh, who sympathized with our desire to tell her son's history 
and lent us her collection of newspaper clippings about him. 
These we supplemented with records from the War Department, 
the Alumni Weekly, etc., etc. 

In June, 1899, Peter had resumed the practice of law at 
Jersey City ; but less than a month later he was appointed Cap- 
tain of the 28th U. S. Volunteer Infantry — the regiment whose 
record later won for it the name of the " Fighting 28th " — 
and he found himself shipped on his first visit " east of Suez " 
to the Philippines. Joining General Wheaton's Expedition 
through Southern Luzon, of January 7th to 22d, 1900, he took 
part in the battle of Putol Bridge on January 7, 1900, and the 
next day at Dascobas, near Cavite, while standing on a rice 
dyke a bullet passed through the lapel of his coat and knocked 
him off the dyke; but his most dangerous experience came in 
February, when he was ordered to disperse an insurgent am- 
buscade waiting for a wagon-train. The Manila Times on 
March 7, 1900, got out an extra edition about this episode, 
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220 PRINCETON NINETY-TWO 

a ravine was under fire from three sides. The Captain's hat 
was shot off, but he led a charge and routed the enemy, saving 
the wagon-train. He was in the skirmish at Sinishian River, 
February 24, and on the 27th he was the senior officer present 
in command of a detachment of his regiment in the battle of 
Lemeri Bridge, when he captured a number of prisoners and a 
large quantity of ammunition and supplies. On July 6 he 
helped to repulse the attack on Taal, the worst proposition he 
ever faced. On July 17 he took part in the engagement of 
Barrio de Talang, and two days later, in the engagement near 
Taal, Batangas Province. From December, 1900, to March, 
1901, he was on Colonel Birkheimer's expedition through North- 
ern Mindanao. He was honorably mustered out in May, 1901. 
During 1900 he had been Military Governor of Caluca and 
Taal, in Batangas Province, and had jurisdiction over several 
small islands in the Southern Pacific and China Sea. When 
Peter got back to Freehold, New Jersey, after his discharge, 
he was given a public reception in the same Opera House where, 
seven years earlier, the Vredenburgh Rifles had the dance to 
which '92 was invited. 

He had, however, applied for a commission in the Regular 
Army, and having passed the necessary examinations, his com- 
mission as First Lieutenant in the 28th U. S. Infantry was 
duly given, dating from February 2, 1901 ; and it was not long 
before he was sent back again to the Philippines. Some of 
Peter's letters home were published in the Freehold papers, and 
they are deeply interesting. 

The principal task to which his regiment was allotted this 
time was the building of the military road from Iligan, Min- 
danao, to Lake Lanao, which for centuries was the center of 
the " forbidden country " in the Philippines. The road was 
cut through the jungle and work began in October, 1902. For 
a long time, says the Army and Navy Journal, the Moros re- 
garded the enterprise as a bluff; the country was so difficult 



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of penetration that they freely predicted failure. But it was 
not long before they found the Americans were very much in 
earnest, and they then talked about getting into line for work. 
By February, 1903, they began to be employed as laborers, 
and in handling them, Peter's experience and tact achieved 
wonders. Writing in March, 1903, he said " I am, as you 
may know, an ambassador, so to speak, to the Sultans and 
Datos of the interior. I go ahead, as the road advances, with 
a small cavalry escort, and make deals with these savages. I 
have learned enough of their language to converse with them, 
but take an interpreter with us. We make them presents and 
pay the Sultans and Datos quite large sums of money for the 
use of their slaves. While calling on the Sultan of Buragao, 
we had to ride between lines of human skulls stuck upon poles, 
trophies of war, several hundred of them, many having the 
flesh and hair still visible, but there was more odor than any- 
thing else. The Sultan is said to be a head-hunter and can- 
nibal, but he was very polite in his filthy den. We hired 150 
slaves of him for work on this road. . . . My life is exciting, 
but hard work is the keynote of it all. I am in the saddle 
most of the time. Have seen some beautiful country in my 
travels, often going for several days where white man was never 
known before." 

During the spring of 1903 Peter was on court-martial duty 
at Iligan, a town which seems to have had drawbacks in the 
shape of mosquitoes, Chinese, Moros (civilized), Viscayans, 
Taj aloes, Spaniards, renegade Americans, wild men from Bor- 
neo, and last of all, monkeys. The monkeys became a great 
nuisance. Pete and another chap had the only bachelor mess 
in town, and the monkeys — besides visiting officers — seemed to 
know it. The monkeys belonged to no one in particular, and 
were always swinging in at the balcony at most unexpected 
times. At night especially did the contents of Peter's larder 
attract them, and preserves and sweets were never safe. Pete 



222 PRINCETON NINETY-TWO 

and his friend had a Chino cook and four servants — and plenty 
of visitors. But the simpler life outside was more attractive, 
and the stiff uniform he had to wear in garrison chafed. He 
longed for the blue flannel shirt and the slouch hat. So it was 
with relief that he went in June to Marahui, on Lake Lanoa, 
at the other end of the great road, to command Co. G, 28th 
Infantry, and act as summary court officer. One isn't trained 
a Jersey City lawyer for nothing. Fish Hall and Pierre Cook 
should apply for vacant Chief Justiceships over there. Bunches 
of room; and Peter would keep the monkeys and natives off. 
Well, Marahui is a town which was strongly fortified by the 
Spaniards, and the lake is so large that they had gunboats 
on it, sinking them when the news of Dewey at Manila reached 
them. The country is full of game which does not know what 
fire-arms are. The wild boars almost run between your legs, 
and the deer are just as innocent. The lake is 2200 feet above 
the sea. The military road was duly completed, and, besides 
opening up one of the richest countries in the world, is a monu- 
ment to the 28th Infantry and Peter Vredenburgh. When last 
heard from — in October, 1906 — Pete, who came back to 
America and civilization in 1902, was stationed at Guana jay, 
Cuba, and Mrs. Vredenburgh informed us in January last that 
he was laid up in the hospital there with a light attack of 
typhoid fever. His photograph is one taken when he was at 
the Presidio in California. By the way, when Peter is in San 
Francisco he always stops in to see Al Lilley and Tommy Irvin, 
but with these exceptions, the only '92 man he has seen in recent 
years is the Hon. Chew Somerby — one evening at a Prince- 
ton dinner at St. Paul, Minn. Then he also met Chew's wife 
and three children. He belongs to the Army and Navy Club 
of Manila, the Order of Caraban, the Order of the Army of 
the Philippines, and the Military Order of Moro Campaigns. 
He says : " There being no news that's fit to print about myself, 
I will spare you the letter and amplitude of rhetoric that a 



BIOGRAPHIES 223 

checkered career might call for." Much of that career is out- 
lined above ; the rest of it we hope to learn in June along with 



— the lore of men that ha' dealt with men 
In the new and naked lands." 



WILLIAMSON UPDIKE VREELAND, A.M., Doct. es Lett. 

Teacher. Residence, 180 Mercer Street, Princeton, N. J. 
Married Alice May Brown, Brooklyn, N. Y., May 9, 1900. Chil- 
dren, May, b. February 26, 1901. 

TO the biography of the author of the following so-called 
" vindication " of the Class Secretary a few words by 
way of preface must be added. After his escape from the 
Spanish jail alluded to below, and his return to Princeton for 
rest, he went back to Paris for a year's study at the Sorbonne, 
and then after his marriage in 1900 he took another year 
abroad, this time at Geneva, where he got the degree of Doc- 
teur es Lettres. From 1894 to 1898 he was Instructor in Ro- 
manic Languages at Princeton, from 1898 to 1904 Assistant 
Professor, and from 1904 Professor. In 1904 he was made head 
of the Modern Language Department of the University. He 
is also an understudy to the Dean and has his hands full of 
administrative and committee work. The Tiger recently re- 
marked that you can fool some of the Examinations and Stand- 
ing Committee all of the time, you can fool most of it some of 
the time, but you can't ever, no never, fool Vreeland. Which 
bit of philosophy suggests that certain undergraduates wish 
he had remained in that Spanish jail. 

Vreeland, with Howard Butler and Wilkie Collins, was an 
editor of the Princeton University Bulletin during the last two 
years of that popular quarterly's existence. His other con- 
tributions to light literature are in the Hot Air Furnace. He 



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- . member of the Nassau Club and the Golf Club of Prince 
tsponding Member of the lustitut de Geneve, ami 
a member of the S©< - lean-Jacques Rousseau, of Geneva, 
\n ( >.ill attention to h - spe< bargain offer to *9t men sending 
sous to Princ< 

*■ A:':,:' trying to ' satisfj the long felt rani ' of the Tour 
mittee, imd * prolong- their life and encourage their pursu 
ipp ness J b] answering their more or loss impertinent ques 
-. anything 1 might sav in a letter would, I tun afraid) 
seem not j lit « l twice-told tale.' Married Mid 

.. 1 ench Dickinson Hall, room No 5, outlines what 
has boon my career, And I should leave it at that it I wen 
afraid that Mike would think my letter too short and would 
: his throat and add some slanderous remarks, 1 >■ 
\ . n \. to make a statement in vindication of Mike, 1 
.\.. I think, soon rather more of him than most of you, and 
I want to say that his question-blank does him an injustice, 
In pi is a self respecting gentleman, not 

g \. overmuch to prj ■-.-, into the affairs of others It 
onlv when ho remembers ' s < iss seen fcary that his cur os tj 
runs awaj with him. Ho thou, like other class secretaries, I 
am afraid, is liable to ask you anything, even a<k you for 
. j 
■• Mike left mo. 1 think, when ho * wrote mo up * for the * Tr 
Sp si ■• - ■ 1. is needless to say that I escaped 
alive, ami, in the fall of 1894 returned to Princeton as ' In- 
structor • Romanic I • . -' \ twelve years 1 am 
still at it, and shall hope to ho ready for your sons when 
them along. " A perfect knowledge of the French langt 
and literature guaranteed in two weeks, or money refund, 

•■ I was married in 1900, went abroad for a year, and brought 
back a daughter admitted to the United States 'roe of duty, 
and a doctor's degree from the University of Geneva- i 



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gultations free! I am at present living a quiet and retired life 
al 180 Mercer Street, and am always glad to welcome any mem 
ber of the Glorious ( !la .. 

" Cordially your ., 

Peincetok, Oct. «0, L9O0. 



FRKDFJUCK CLIFFORD WARD 

Electrical Supplies. Address, Oneonta, X. Y. 

Married Agnes Arbuekle, June 7, 18.09. Children, none. 

WARD studied at the New Yorls Law School and at the 
Albany Law School, and was admitted to the bar in 
1 896. Since then he das been doing electrical work, installing 
toll Lines and telephone exchanges. He has travelled north* 

south, and east on business and has lived at, Delhi, Malone, St. 

Albans, Potsdam, Richford Springs, Cooperstown, New York 
and Albany. J J is hobby is fighting the trusts more particu- 
larly soaking the Bell Telephone Company. 

J 
CROWLEY WENTWORTH, LL.B. v 

Lawyer. Residence, J 44 West 123d Street, Sew York City. 
Married Harriet Fairchild, S<- w York City, November 28, J 894. 
Children, Isabel, h. September J a, 18fja. 

CROWLEY received his legal education at the New York 
Law School. He is a lawyer, " hence, in a sense, a gentle- 
man of leisure"; he says: "Devote some time to (raiting for 

clients." He will not give himself away as to books, articles, 
speeches, or lectures lie may have perpetrated on the ground 
that it might, tend to incriminate or degrade him. His travel- 
ling has been confined to trips to and from his office. From 
January, 1896, to September, 1899, he resided at Randolph, 



226 PRINCETON NINETY-TWO 

N. Y. ; but since then has lived in New York City. When he 
has carfare he takes no exercise, and he has no recreation fit to 
mention. 

JAMES WESTERVELT, A.M. 

Lawyer. Office, 32 Liberty Street, New York City. Residence, 
Boston Post Road, Rye, N. Y. 

Married (1) Lily King Clarke, Montclair. N. J., June 10, 1896, 
who died March 11, 1897. Children, Lily King, b. March 14, 
1897. (2) Mary M. (Clarke) Power, Chicago, July 21, 1904. 
Children, James, Jr., b. October 2, 1905. Stepchildren, John 
Alsop, b. May 15, 1891. Alan Huntington, b. May 14, 1899- 

JIM studied for two years at the New York Law School, but 
on the days of his final exams had a pressing engagement 
in Princeton, and so never took his degree. This has not hin- 
dered him at all in his labors as a member of the firm of Moses, 
Morris & Westervelt, nor in his work of organizing and 
launching the Columbian National Life Insurance Company, nor 
in his presidency of the American Agency Company, one of the 
concerns allied with the Columbian. James' most successful 
piece of oratory was delivered in the United States Supreme 
Court at Washington, some years ago, when he made a ten- 
strike, but didn't get all the pins. Since then he has delivered 
many lectures in his capacity as parens multiplex familuv. He 
has been suffered by the object of these lectures, sometimes 
cheered by his or her brothers or sisters, or both, according to 
who happened to be within hearing. During the Spanish War 
lie organized a company for the defense of Pike's Peak, but 
the Long Island City police arrested the gallant bunch en 
route. For the past five years Jim has travelled over most of 
the United States east of the Rockies on business ; the summer 
of 1900 he spent in England, Germany, and Holland, with a 
brief visit to Piris and Oberammergau. He belongs to the 



BIOGRAPHIES 227 

Players' and Princeton Clubs of New York, is a governor of 
Tiger Inn at Princeton, and a member of the Princeton Club 
of Philadelphia, the Hamilton Club of Chicago, the Apa- 
wannis Club at Rye, and the American Yacht Club, Milton 
Point, N. Y. He is very much of a family man, and is crazy 
about his children and his home. For some years he was a 
vestryman at Montclair. His beard and shock of hair are the 
envy of Moses and the joy of Morris, his partners. Besides 
these members of the class, he sees Doty, Williams, Stevenson, 
Big Bess, and the Duke most frequently ; Roberts occasionally 
— Jim says he is quite a Chesterfield nowadays ; and once in 
a while he catches a glimpse of Tommy Bell dashing by in a 
whirl of dust preceded by a big motor car. 

" Rye, N. Y., Sunday, February 10, 1907. 
" Dear Kelly : 

" There is no doubt that I have been most remiss in delaying 
the sending of this letter until I am one of the last, if not the 
very last, of the Class to come up with the goods. Especially 
is this reprehensible in my case, inasmuch as I shall shortly be 
gnashing my teeth as treasurer of the Reunion Committee be- 
cause of the delays of others. 

" I know of no better word to describe my life for the past 
fifteen years than ' strenuous.' My study and practice of the 
law up to the end of 1901 was strenuous. Hard fighting, give 
and take, often perforce more ' take ' than ' give,' made for 
me two or three bitter enemies, and many friends, both of whom 
I still prize most highly. 

" For the past five years, while for most of that time a mem- 
ber of the law firm of Moses, Morris & Westervelt, I have given 
almost all of my time to the promotion, organization and build- 
ing of the Columbian National Life Insurance Company of 
Boston. Bill Woodbridge, '93, was the founder of the Com- 
pany, which began business on September 11, 1902. About a 



228 PRINCETON NINETY-TWO 

year before that time, the brilliancy of his ideas, and the size, 
depth and breadth of the man's conceptions, added to his un- 
usually winning and lovable personality, attracted, and then 
bound me to him and his enterprise. From then until he was 
killed in an automobile accident in June, 1905, he and I went 
up and down over the country, together most of the time, some- 
times separating so as to cover more ground, adding here a 
director, there a group of them, in each principal city opening 
an office, and getting a force of agents started. It was no 
uncommon thing for us to spend five nights a week on sleeping 
cars, and hardly a month went by in which at least ten or a 
dozen nights were not so spent. ' Strenuous ' hardly describes 
it. but it was worth while. At his death in June, 1905, the 
' Columbian ' had already some $1,300,000 assets, and insurance 
in force of about $33,000,000. At the end of 1906 it had 
assets of about $3,500,000, and insurance in force of nearly 
$50,000,000. 

" But now that the preliminary work is accomplished, I am 
glad to remember that my profession is the law. It was valu- 
able business experience, but it was too ' strenuous.' 

" Yet it had its compensations. It kept me in touch with 
many of the members of the Great and Glorious Class. I used 
every now and then to see, for instance, Redney Hart or Jack 
Mitchell in Philadelphia; Billy Wilson, Tall Pendleton (at the 
Maryland Club about 5:15 p. m.), the Riggses, McLanahan or 
Pot Rieman in Baltimore ; Fin Lloyd or Pat Irish in Pittsburg — 
always telephoning to Greensburg for Dick, and uniformly find- 
ing him at his office by 11 a. m., in time for him to catch the 
noon train for Pittsburg; Ben Ames in various parts of the 
Ohio Valley ; Mcllvaine and Brig Young in Chicago ; Ed. Elli- 
son and Chip DeLong in K. C. ; and so on and so on. It was 
pretty good fun in spots, but I am not sorry that the work I 
was engaged in is practically completed. 



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" So, while I am still a director of the Company, I am settling 
again into my stride (or is it a lope?) practicing law. 

" My domestic life has also had its high lights and shadows. 
Just four years after graduation I married, and I believe that 
no man ever lived a happier life than mine was for a few 
months. Her name was Lily, and an exquisite lily she was, and 
perfect. She died early the next Spring, leaving me a 
daughter, who will shortly be ten years old. 

" Dark days followed. I never knew until then, though, how 
bully were, and are, the friendships made in the dear old ' Burg.' 

" And now, well, my life is ideally happy. Two and a half 
years ago I married my first wife's sister. She, too, had been 
married before, and her two boys, one just older and one just 
younger, than their stepsister, give us a happy family indeed. 
Of Mrs. Westervelt I will not write at length, lest she be em- 
barrassed when she reads this. Nothing I could write would do 
her half justice anyway. Ask any of the fellows who have met 
her, and then size up my frame of mind next June, and you 
will have a little idea of my good fortune. 

" We have a little James, Jr., but I won't do the fond papa 
act in writing. It is bad enough to have a man talk to you 
about his children. 

" Of course all of the boys are going to Princeton. As far 
as I can see at present, there will be Westervelts there just 
three-fourths of the time between 1912 and 1928. And I am 
hoping John will lead off by making his P about twice. 

" Well, that'll be about all. Eheu fugaces . . . labuntur 
anni has no sad ring about it for me. The fifteen years have 
been very full ones, full of much sorrow but much more happi- 
ness. It is a bully old world and deserves to have a place like 
Princeton in it. 

" Always sincerely, 

" James Westervelt." 



230 PRINCETON NINETY-TWO 

BENJAMIN VROOM WHITE, A.M. 

Architect. Office, 110 East 23d Street, New York City. Resi- 
dence, Summit, N. J. 

Married Margaret H. Risk, Summit, N. J., March 14, 1905. Chil- 
dren, William Risk, b. February 20, 1906. 

BEN is an architect, which will explain his statement that 
his exercise is climbing to the top of his creations, and his 
recreation is driving from one to the other. Like all artistic 
architects, he is a bit of a dreamer, and builds castles in the air 
— so much so that he confesses his hobby is planning what he will 
do when all his works are completed. It is not without fitness 
that he took the prize in architecture at graduation, and that in 
due course he claimed and received the degree of Master of 
Arts. His checkered career is narrated in the letter which 
follows. In addition to the facts there given, he informs us 
that he has appeared on the public platform a few times — 
occasions not named — and that he has been " suffered " ; but he 
still shudders at the thought and adds, " bring not the memory 
of them back to me." His sole appreciable effort in the in- 
terests of politics was to ride fifteen miles in a semi-blizzard to 
cast a vote for McKinley and Roosevelt in 1900, out in North 
Dakota. When he was pressed for an autobiographical letter 
he wrote that it would be crowded out by pressure of other 
business, the more so as it would contain " but little of interest." 
He was dunned some more and finally wrote : " Enclosed find 
hasty sketch of my brilliant career. If you can't read it, in- 
quire of the blacksmith." Here is the letter — written on a 
train at midnight : 

" D., L. & W. R. R. Co., 
"In transit, October 22, 1906, 11.30 p. m. 
" My dear Kelly : 

" You have sprung your request for a letter upon me very 
unexpectedly. I had expected to have five years yet in which 



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to do something worth recording in the annals of the ' Most 
Glorious Class.' You can see by referring to my ' vital statis- 
tics ' how dilatory I have been in approaching the great things 
of life. Fifteen years out of college and nothing doing in the 
political line, not yet president of these or any other United 
States — or at least, president in name only since March 14, 
1905, the real power behind the throne allowing me to assume 
that title for my own gratification. Nothing doing in litera- 
ture, my manuscripts being either returned marked ' no funds,' 
or else so defaced with multilating devices that I can use 
them no more for their original purpose, and with a resultant 
loss of my esteemed (bank) reserve. Nothing doing in the line 
of public speaking except to utter the one fateful answer, ' I 
will ' to the great for-better-or-for-worse question, which, while 
it has brought me much personal happiness, has not re-echoed 
far and wide around the world. 

" In my fancied security of five years more before being 
called to account, I have let the years slip by and can only 
report progress. 

" For seven years after leaving college I labored like Jacob 
of old for the bride of my professional life, only to find at the 
end of that time seven years more of service staring me in the 
face if I would prove of Jacobean mould. Two years of this 
time I determined to put in studying abroad, and so in the Fall 
of 1898 I moved the flocks and herds of my prospective pro- 
fessional father-in-law many parasangs to the eastward, and 
dwelt for a time in the land of the Gauls, till one day the herds 
turned and rent me [Ben means he broke down from overwork 
in Paris and barely escaped with his life. — Eds.] and I was 
sent posthaste to the opposite corner of the earth — a ranch in 
North Dakota — for recuperation. There I wrestled with 
actual herds of hide and tallow, a complete metamorphosis from 
gay Alphonse of the Latin quarter to Bronco Bill of the two- 
bits region — cow puncher for the T. I. X. outfit, horse 
wrangler, night hawk, cook, foreman and general utility dude 



232 PRINCETON NINETY-TWO 

for the Custer Trail bunch ; until suddenly realizing that Jacob 
was not ' such a much ' after all, and that his ancient methods 
could not be successfully applied in this twentieth century, I 
headed for Little Old New York, hitting only the high places in 
my haste and prostrated myself at the feet of Her who has 
since proved to me that old Jacob was many times several kinds 
of a fool ! Being somewhat reduced in finances by my long 
years of service, I found it necessary to get very busy, which I 
did at once, and have been keeping steadily at it ever since, so 
much so that I find it impossible to comply with your request 
except by snatching a few moments on the train and writing 
on this paper, begged from the Lord of the side door Pullman 
(Baggage Car No. 1892!) And with sufficient success to have 
attained the summum bonum of life, a home of my own, pre- 
sided over by One to be lived up to, and enlivened by ^the merry 
laughter of a sub-freshman of the Class of 1924 of Princeton. 
With best wishes to all the old Class, 

" Yours truly and theirs, 

" Ben V. White. 

" P. S. — If Jacob wasn't the name of the old Israelite re- 
ferred to above, please make proper allowance for the lateness 
of the hour.— B. V. W." 

(We leave the question in the hands of our ministerial class- 
mates. — Eds.) 

EDWARD VAN DYKE WIGHT, A.M., D.D. 

Teacher. Residence, Hastings, Neb. 

Married Kate O. Wilkerson, August 28, 1895. Children, Edward 

Van Dyke, Jr., b. July 13, 1896. Elizabeth A., b. January 

20, 1898. William K., b. June 10, 1906. 

VAN DYKE studied at Chicago Theological Seminary for 
two years, and at the Princeton Seminary for one, and 
he writes us: 



BIOGRAPHIES 233 

" After graduating from the Seminary, I was pastor of the 
church at Wayne for a year and a half. For the last five years 
I have been both pastor of the Presbyterian Church and Presi- 
dent of Hastings College here at Hastings. I have just re- 
signed the pastorate of the church, and taken the presidency 
of the college alone. Much of my time has been spent in rais- 
ing funds for this institution. We have just secured an en- 
dowment of $100,000 and a building from Mr. Carnegie. This 
seems like a small amount, but when you think that up to three 
years ago we did not have one cent of endowment, it means a 
great deal to us. The last year we have secured about $70,000 
for permanent funds. 

" I am blessed with a family of three. My oldest boy is a 
little over ten years of age, and the youngest but a few months 
old. 

" I do not see many of my classmates. ' Josie Hoffman ' is 
in Lincoln, and is doing very well both in his profession as a 
doctor and also as a musician." 

Dr. Wight — for Hastings College made him a Doctor of 
Divinity in 1904 — is thus the only college president the Class 
can boast of as yet, and the hard work he has put in gathering 
shekels for his institution does not make the rest of us hanker 
for the job. Hastings College has a faculty of twelve, is co- 
educational, and consists of preparatory, college, teachers and 
business departments. With Joe Mayhew handling the medico- 
musical end and President Wight the educational, Nebraska bids 
fair to blossom like the rose. 



834 PRINCETON NINETY-TWO 



JESSE LYNCH WILLIAMS. A.M. 

Writer. Wj Washington Road, Princeton, N. J. 

Married Alice Laidlaw, New York City. Juno 1. 1898. Children. 
Henry Meade, b. May l, 1899. Jesse Lynch, Jr.. b. August 
1900. 1 uo.hu Ouderdonk. b. Juno p. 100 k 

JESSE -pout two years in Princeton as a post graduate, 
writing " Princeton Stories," which is now in its twelfth 
edition. He received the degree of A. M. in dune. 1895. Since 
then he has devoted himself pretty strictly to the literary life. 
His books, etc.. are listed with other *92 masterpieces in the 
11. A. F. He has appeared but once on the public platform, when 
he was representing Princeton at a Yale Alumni banquet ; he 
was never asked again to represent anybody anywhere. In 
regard to politics he says, " I confess to having taken practi- 
cally no interest in politics and am heartily ashamed of the 
confession. A couple of magazine articles about my friend 
Everett Colby, our Jersey Reformer, are about my only work — 
ami a short story founded on an incident in his career. I be- 
lieve in him, would like to help a little: and have been much 
entertained by the arguments of his opposers — including some 
of our prominent alumni in classes ahead of ours." 

Jesse came near " seeing" a lot of military service in Cuba 
during the war: had a chance to go as a correspondent, but 
stayed home to get married. The man who went in his place 
was shot — u nearest I'll ever come to being a hero," says Jesse. 
He was in Europe once before and once after marriage, and 
recently he has been a little through the eastern and central 
section-; of the country with the " Stolen Story " Company. 
He spent the year of 1903-1904 in Normandy with his family, 
but declares it was too much like work and he will never do it 
asrain without two secretaries and about three trained nurses. 



BIOGRAPHIES 235 

However, his trio of young huskies all chatter in French, and 
when they get into college will be the delight of Professor 
Vreeland. 

Jesse was a reporter on the Sun, and then on the staff of the 
Commercial Advertiser, and from 1897 to 1900 was on the 
staff of Scribner's, for which he wrote those charming little 
advertising pamphlets you get about the new books and the new 
features of the magazine. He was editor of the Alumni Weekly 
from its founding until 1904. He is still one of the directors 
of the Princeton Publishing Company, which controls that valu- 
able sheet. He walks when he can't play tennis, and plays golf 
when he can't get out of it. But shooting is still his hobby, 
and next to shooting and fishing, he gets most rest and enjoy- 
ment from talking in a congenial crowd. He goes on to say: 
" I see former room-mate Bobbie Stevenson more than any 
other one. He was my best man in '98 ; I was his last June. 
As the years roll on I see less and less of the others, except at 
smokers and Dutches and reunions and big games, all of which 
opportunities for meeting I attend rather faithfully. I shan't 
go through the list of my former intimates. In most cases I 
consider it more their fault than mine that ' we have drifted 
apart ' — perhaps they would not agree with me. Perhaps it is 
the fault of neither ; but in any case I consider it grievously my 
misfortune. They are busily engaged in one sort of thing and 
I in another — and there you are. It's the way of the world. 

" But when we do get together, I notice that, as a rule, none 
of these things seems to matter for more than about a minute 
and a half. J. L. W." 

A list of Jesse's books and stories will be found in the Hot 
Air Furnace. 



236 PRINCETON NINETY-TWO 



JOHN GLOVER WILSON, A.M., LL.B. 

Lawyer. Office, General Offices B. & O. Railroad, Baltimore, Md. 

Residence, 43 West Preston Street, Baltimore, Md. 
Married, Evalina Orrick Bandel, Baltimore, Md., November 17, 

1897. Children, John Glover, Jr., b. July 27, 1899; d. March 

25, 1900. 

THE Latin Salutatorian studied law at the University of 
Maryland, and in 1894 was given the right to add 
LL. B. to his name. Since then he has orated steadily, eloquently, 
usefully. In fact his reputation as a speaker is such in Mary- 
land that Alt'. Riggs gave it as his legal opinion that the easi- 
est way to raise the needed money for the Class Fund was to get 
the crowd into the right condition and then " let Billy Wilson 
turn on the hot air." The latter says himself that he has 
written, lectured and made speeches — but without materially 
affecting the sum total of human knowledge, and his defense is 
that a country lawyer (he was at Cumberland, Md., from 1894 
to 1908) is a sort of mental Jack-at-all-trades. While in Cum- 
berland, Billy was elected a School Commissioner for Allegany 
Co., Md., serving from 1897 to 1899, and in the latter year he 
was elected State's Attorney for the same county, serving it 
right until 1903. He was elected on the Republican ticket. 
Since 1903 he has been transferred to the main office of the Law 
Department of the B. & O. Railroad at Baltimore. He 
travelled in Europe with Sam Small (not the evangelist) in 
1892, and has since visited Europe for rest and recuperation in 
1896, 1897 and 1900. He is a member of the Maryland Club, 
the Baltimore Country Club and the Green Spring Valley Hunt 
Club, where he gets the fox hunting he loves. At the present 
time his hobby is the house he is building in the Green 
Spring (N. B. not Chattolanee Spring) Valley. He says he 
sees Pendleton, Stork, Rieman- and Alf. Riggs occasionally — 





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not to mention McLanahan, " who is cornering most of the 
stray cash down this way," and E. J. Cook, " who is monopoliz- 
ing the law business at Towson, Baltimore County. Billy could 
not come on to the Class Smoker last November because the cor- 
poration chains held him fast, and he was under obligation on 
that date to keep certain wiJd West Virginians from stealing one 
of the B. & O.'s branch roads. " Nothing," he wrote, " would 
afford me keener pleasure (you can take Mrs. W.'s word for 
this if you doubt mine — she says I'd go a thousand miles to 
make a speech) than to act as a distributing center for hot air 
at the Hofbrau House — but I can't get there — it isn't in the 
wood." Alf. Riggs' diagnosis of the Hon. John G. W. was 
correct just the same; and this letter proves it. 

" Baltimore, Maryland, January 28, 1907. 
" Dr. William K. Prentice, Princeton, N. J. 

" Dear Sir: — I would take up Wilkie Collins on his proposi- 
tion to write my letter unless it is in by the first of February, 
but I am afraid of his fine Italian hand. So here is what I have 
been doing: 

" After Princeton and my celebrated trip abroad with Sam 
Small, I had two years in the University of Maryland Law 
School; then nine years in Cumberland, Maryland, where I was 
local counsel for the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, and shared, in 
addition, the usual experiences of a country lawyer ; set off, 
however, by such ornamental details as editing the Hour 
Book, a magazine which, having no particular reason for 
existence, gasped out its untimely end after being published ten 
months. 

" Then for two or three years I was School Commissioner, 
which gave me an opportunity to emit torrents of eloquence, 
which my college career had proved too short to exhaust, at 
school commencements, teachers' institutes, and other inspiring 
occasions. 



238 PRINCETON NINETY-TWO 

" Before long I got into politics. People sometimes asked 
me if I found that sort of thing interesting. Then I think of 
the three hours, which seemed years, I spent in an anteroom at 
the City Hall in Cumberland listening to the Secretary of the 
County Convention call over the roll of districts, of which I 
had thirteen and the other fellow thirteen, until finally somebody 
flopped and the other fellow only had eleven. ' Interesting ' 
was not exactly the epithet at that moment, nor had it been 
for the previous ten months in which I had been campaigning to 
get that nomination for State's Attorney. I was elected for a 
four-year term, and clung enthusiastically to the office and its 
emoluments from January 1, 1900, to June 1, 1903, when I had 
a chance to come to Baltimore as Assistant General Attorney 
of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad. Here I have been ever since. 

" My official mail is addressed to me under this sonorous title, 
but I confess it hurts my feelings when the newspapers speak 
of me as ' Lawyer Wilson of the B. & O.' A couple years 
ago I tried a case which lasted three months in court, and every 
day I had to figure under this choice description. 

" The Baltimore fire burned out our offices, but we are now 
located in a fine new building, which only needs more '92 men 
dropping in to make it just right. 

" As a railroad lawyer, of course, my practice is specialized, 
and I have gotten out of the old jury trial work of which I 
did a great deal at Cumberland. I go before the Interstate 
Commerce Commission frequently, and have been investigated 
times too numerous to mention. 

" Coming to Baltimore has changed my course of life in 
many ways in addition to changing the character of my prac- 
tice. Decoration Day has ceased to mean a chance to fire a 
volley of words over our honored dead. If I am lucky now, it 
means a day on horseback. Election day no longer involves 
keeping an eagle eye on the votes, but it means a fine ride after 
the hounds and a hunt breakfast. In short, I am no longer a 



BIOGRAPHIES 239 

distinguished member of the community, but a very private 
citizen, who works hard and gets as much fun in between times 
as he can. 

" A thing which looms large on my horizon just now is a 
country house, which is still on paper — but I put on the airs of 
a landed proprietor in speaking of my 7.54 (don't anybody say 
seven and a half) acres in the Green Spring Valley. Mrs. 
Wilson and I are looking forward to getting into the house by 
next fall, and then it will not be safe for any '92 man to show 
up in Baltimore without coming around to my office to see me, 
and letting me take him out to the farm. 

" It will be observed that I use the plural number in speaking 
of anything really important. Nine years ago I entered the 
holy estate of matrimony ; I found it a large estate, and it has 
not taken the entire nine years to show me that it is best 
worked co-operatively. 

" I think this is about all that's fit to print. The rest I hope 
to relate at pleasant triangulations of benches on the campus in 
front of Old North in June. " Sincerely yours, 

" John G. Wilson." 

PERCY WILSON, LL.B. 

Lawyer. Address, Silver City, New Mexico. 

Married Violetta Bertha Ashenfelter, Silver City, N. M., December 
25, 1900. Children, none. 

PERCY studied law at the University of Michigan for two 
years and took his degree in 1894. He was located in 
Denver for the six following years, and since 1900 he has 
operated (isn't that the term?) in Silver City. He is very, very 
uncommunicative — acknowledging only that he is a Republican, 
that once in a while he goes hunting or fishing, and that if he 
has any pet interest at all it is books. Percy must be making 
money. 



240 PRINCETON NINETY-TWO 

JOHN E. WITHERSPOON 

Civil Service. Address, No. 11, R. D. 1, Sacramento, Cal. Un- 
married. 

POP WITHERSPOON is in Uncle Sam's employ carrying 
rural mail at Sacramento. Since he left college he has 
lived and visited in most of the States from New Hampshire to 
California and from Virginia to Canada — in fact " in most of 
the States of the Union except those of matrimony and intoxi- 
cation," and he has occupied positions of trust and honor from 
bootblack to business manager, from peddler to preacher. " I 
once tried to work the Republican party for a township office, 
but got worked myself. By virtue of my position, I am de- 
barred from politics, but expect to see some of my articles in 
the press under the headings ' John Doe's Address ' and ' Jim 
Brown's views of the platform.' " Witherspoon has never en- 
tered military service because, as he says, he holds the record for 
comparative lightweight, being 5 ft. 10 in. in height, while 
weighing only 115 pounds, and so cannot satisfy the physical 
requirements. He belongs to no clubs nor societies, save those 
auxiliary to the Presbyterian Church. He has done quite a 
little writing, having reported for the county press of Frank- 
lin Co., Pa., and having published several articles during the 
late nineties and early nineteen hundreds in the Grocery World 
of Philadelphia. Before going to California he was in the 
grocery business. His pamphlet " Business and Religion " is 
in the Alumni Collection in the University Library. Speaking 
of his efforts at authorship he jokingly says, " My articles 
showed that I had a wonderful ability in telling others how to 
do business, get rich and be happy — something I could never 
do for myself. I soon won a reputation for being able to tell 



BIOGRAPHIES Ml 

the other fellow how, and of knowing how to attend to every- 
body's business but my own. The only thing I have ever done 
that would win for me a reputation was to write my autobiog- 
raphy. This was purchased by the Sprague Publishing Com- 
pany of Detroit, Mich., on account of .its uniqueness ; but the 
editor has never had the courage to publish it. If it ever comes 
before the public, WyckofF and his ' Workers ' will be far 
eclipsed. I sometimes fear lest the editor should become 
audacious enough to put it into print and I should be called 
from my duties as an unassuming servant in Uncle Sam's Post- 
office Department to the field of authorship." 

Concluding, Witherspoon says : " Sacramento seems to be 
as far from Princeton as Africa. Can't you send some good 
men this way? " It is some years since he last saw a Princeton 
man, but he has the right spirit. " I still have that filial feeling 
for the College and my Class which time and adversity have 
failed to eradicate." 



CLINTON TYLER WOOD, A.M. 

Minister and teacher. Office, The Institute, Wellington, Cape Col- 
ony, South Africa. Residence, Cor. Hope and Joubert Streets, 
Wellington, Cape Colony, South Africa. 

Married Jennie Stoddard Clark, Morija, Basutoland, South Africa, 
January 15, 1899- Children, Clinton Tyler, Jr., b. February 
18, 1900. Francis Clark, b. October 1, 1901. 

CLINT WOOD is another of the little group of '92 men 
who have devoted themselves to work in foreign lands. 
He is at the head of the Mission Institute at Wellington, a 
training school of the Dutch Reformed Church of South Africa, 
and he is also chaplain of the Huguenot College and Seminary 
for Girls at Wellington, the only woman's college in South 



242 PRINCETON NINETY-TWO 

Africa. His wife, by the way, was teaching in the College when 
Clint first appeared on the ground. Their wedding was an 
international affair, being solemnized at a mission station of 
the Protestant Church of France, a Scotch missionary officiat- 
ing and a French missionary acting as best man. Clint has had 
uphill work, but has accomplished a great deal among the 
Dutch young men. To get into closer touch with them, he 
passed in 1904 his Colloquium Doctum or examination in Doc- 
trine, and became a minister of the Dutch Reformed Church of 
South Africa. He says his two boys are booked for Princeton 
'22 and '23, respectively. At present they are " playing 
cricket and English Rugby." Clint, as you will remember, went 
through the Seminary after graduation. One summer he was 
supply at the First Presbyterian Church in Princeton. For a 
couple of seasons he coached the Washington-Jefferson foot- 
ball team. Then he was supply at the Emmanuel Chapel, New 
York City, being especially interested in City Missions. He 
went out to South Africa in 1897, and with the exception of a 
visit home in 1902-03 has been on duty ever since. He says he 
has of course taken no part in politics, but he couldn't help 
being a pro-Boer in the late South African war. He has visited 
the Orange River Colony and the Transvaal, and has become an 
adept at ox-wagon travelling and can hold down a seat in a 
Cape cart. Doubtless, too, he knows all about kopjes and the 
veldt and laagers and treks. Indeed, he was thinking seriously 
of trekking, at last writing. He finds the climate very enervat- 
ing and has not been in good health. Probably he has been 
driven too much, for besides his Institute Principalship and the 
Huguenot College chaplaincy, he is chairman of the Student 
Volunteer Movement in South Africa, member of the General 
Committee of the World's Christian Student Federation for 
South Africa, and Superintendent of the Quiet Hour Branch of 
Christian Endeavor in South Africa. It looks as if " quiet 
hours " were the least of his troubles ! His exercise is tennis, 





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bicycling and cricket, and his hobby is Church History. He 
sends his hearty love to every '9& man. 

(For part of above material, we are indebted to Clint's father- 
in-law, the Rev. Dr. Win. II. Clark of Detroit, Mich. — Eds.) 



RICHARD FLAVEL WOODS, A.M., M.D. 

Physician. Office, N. W. Cor. 15th and Spruce Streets, Philadel- 
phia, Pa. Residence, 1501 Spruce Street, Philadelphia, Pa. 
Unmarried. 

DICK WOODS took his medical degree at the University of 
Pennsylvania in 1895, but his hobbies are literature and 
;ul. There was a story from his pen in McClure's for July, 
1904, which would have won him ail editorship of the Nassau 
Lit hands down. Other light literature emanating from the 
corner of 15th ami Spruce will be found mentioned in the II. 
A. F. a i'vw pages further on. Like Reddy Hart, he is hot on 
the trail of the grafters and gave his vote for the overthrow of 
gang rule in Philadelphia. His military service has not been so 
active " I saw the troops marching at the Peace Jubilee in 
'98 and I frequently see our city troop marching down Broad 
Street." lie has travelled extensively. In '97 he was in the 
West Indies, the following year he visited South America, in '99 
he was once more in the West Indies, and in the summer of '06 
he saw Germany, France, Holland and England. He was resi- 
dent physician of the Pennsylvania Hospital, and is a gyne- 
cologist of wide reputation, having been surgeon at the 
Gyneccan Hospital, Instructor in Gynecology at the University 
of Pennsylvania and Assistant Gynecologist of the Pennsyl- 
vania Hospital. Besides belonging to various medical societies, 
he is a member of the Rittenhouse, University and Racquet 
Clubs of Philadelphia, and the Nassau Club of Princeton. 



244 PRINCETON NINETY-TWO 

"Piiila., March 8, 1907. 
" l)i- \i; Classmates : 

M After leaving you the other day, in 1898, I entered the 
University <>t" Pennsylvania, I spent three unhappy years 
there; was graduated in medicine; served in Pennsylvania Hos 
pita] for two years. Since that time I have been in active prac 
tiee in the City of Philadelphia. Happy, prosperous, ami have 
enjoyed good health with the exception of a had accident in my 

automobile which confined me in the Hospital for six weeks. I 
am not married and ilo not think, if the fates are kind, I will 
he for some time. However, one never can tell. 

" As each year rolls by they only seem to strengthen my love 
for Princeton, and the dawning middle life seems rosier for all 
she has given me in the past. 

" Yours very truly, 

" R. F. Woons." 



WALTER LIVINGSTON WRIGHT, JR., A. M. 

Teacher. Address, Lincoln University, Chester County, Pa, 
Married Jean Carr, Lincoln University, Pa, July 8, 1895. Chil' 
dren, Jean Gray, b. July 19, 1896. Walter Livingston, 8d, 
b. May 15, 1900. George Carr, b. November 18, 1901. 

IT will he remembered that Wright won the Experimental 
Science Fellowship at graduation and remained at Prince- 
ton as Fellow during the year 1898-98. Since 1899 lie has 
occupied the Reuben J. Flick ('hair of Mathematics at Lincoln 

University, and Is also Instructor in Astronomy. lie is a con 
sistent voter, has never held public office and has always sup- 
ported thi' Republican National ticket and in Pennsylvania the 
anti machine reform candidate. lie is a Fellow of the Amer- 
ican Association for the Advancement of Science, a member of 

the American Astronomical and Ast rophysical Society, and of 






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the National Geographic Society. He travelled in England, 
Scotland and on the Continent during the summer of 1898. 

" I have no story of hardship, adventure, or great achieve- 
ments in money or honor ; I can present only the record of 
thirteen years spent in this institution, which for fifty years has 
been endeavoring to give the negro a man's chance in the world 
by offering to the best men of the race an opportunity to get 
a college education. The work is pleasant, effective and full 
of hope." 



LAWRENCE ANDREW YOUNG, LL.B. 

Lawyer. Office, 1014 Ashland Block, Chicago, 111. Residence, 
1812 Prairie Avenue, Chicago, 111. 

Married Mabel Wheeler, 1812 Prairie Avenue, Chicago, 111., Jan- 
uary 11, 1894. Children, Henry Wheeler, b. December 2, 
1894. Alice, b. May 23, 1898. Lawrence Robinson, b. Feb- 
ruary 8, 1903. 

THE father of the Class Boy is the most enthusiastic 
Princetonian in Chicago, where he has lived for the past 
ten years. There is never a Commencement in the Old Burg 
but Brig turns up big and hearty as ever, with Mrs. Young 
and The Boy in tow. He will even come all the way from 
Illinois to attend a '92 Dutch. For the information of those 
who do not know it, let it be said that Brig is a lawyer, having 
been graduated from the University of Louisville Law School 
in 1893. He is a good Democrat; ran for Judge of Superior 
Court, Cook Co., 111., in November, 1900, but was defeated. 
In 1897 he was Assistant Corporation Counsel of the City of 
Chicago. He belongs to the University and Princeton Clubs 
of New York, the Nassau Club of Princeton, the Pendennis 
Club, Louisville; to the Chicago, University, Calumet, Saddle 



246 PRINCETON NINETY-TWO 

and Cycle, and South Shore Country Clubs of Chicago ; to the 
Chicago Golf Club, Wheaton, 111., and to the Onwentsia Club, 
Lake Forest, 111. He plays baseball, golf and tennis ; is an 
automobilist ; does not play bridge nor poker, and his hobby is 
getting his boys ready for Princeton. When he was elected 
chairman of the Board of Stewards of the Western Jockey Club 
in February, 1901, the Chicago Times-Herald printed his pic- 
ture and stated that he was President of the Washington Park 
Club, and in his new position would be the most prominent figure 
in the western controlling turf body. He took a leading part 
in the effort begun some months previously, and reaching its 
climax at his election, to elevate the turf. His interest in rac- 
ing comes entirely from his genuine love of sport, a trait 
exceedingly rare among the majority. 



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Robert Dickson Ballantine, LL. B. Died December 
9, 1905. 

For the following sketch of Bob Ballantine we are indebted 
to his brother-in-law, Henry Young, Jr., '93: 

" Robert Dickson Ballantine was born in Newark, New Jer- 
sey, July 8th, 1870. He attended the Pingree School at 
Elizabeth and the Stevens High School, from which latter 
institution he entered Princeton, matriculating with the Class 
of '92. He did not complete his course, however, but left 
Princeton in the beginning of his Junior year. After a year 
of study in the law office of Teese & Pitney, in Newark, he 
entered the Law School of the University of Virginia, from 
which in due course he obtained the degree of Bachelor of 
Laws. Upon the completion of his studies he made an extended 
trip abroad, and upon his return took up his residence in the 
city of New Orleans, where he studied medicine at Tulane 
University. 

" In 1902 he returned to Virginia and purchased an estate 
known as Edgehill, about seven miles from Charlottesville, and 
devoted the remaining years of his life to farming and the 
development of his property. 

" He died in Newark, New Jersey, the 9th of December, 
1905." 

Jeremiah M. Bamford. Died March, 1900. 

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•J is PRINCETON NINETY-TWO 

Cu.vui t s \Y. Hkinmsik. Died dune 15, 1893. 

Charlie Brenniser died at his home, 1914 Wallace Street, 

Philadelphia, on June 15, 1898, after a brief illness, lie left 
the (.'lass at the end o( the Freshman year and lived for a time in 
Philadelphia and afterward in Colorado. 

Frederick Broxaw. Died June 84, 1891. 

Sixteen years ago — on June 84, 1891- Fred Hrokaw lost his 

life at Elberon, X. J., trying to save a drowning girl. His 

wide popularity, his personal attractiveness and his athletic- 
skill hail given him a host o( friends and a reputation through 

the country such as few undergraduates win. The shock of 

his peculiarly tragic death we all remember. 

In an editorial the following Fall the Ptincetonum said: 

" The record o( this young life, so strong and hopeful for the 
future, so unassuming and gentle in character, ami the noble 
giving up of all at the call oi' duty will be preserved by Prince- 
ton as one ol' her most precious heritages.*" 

The Hrokaw Memorial stands as a lasting monument to our 
classmate's noble self-sacritice. 

The resolutions oi' the Class were published in the Pfince- 
tonian of October 5, 1891. The following lines were written 
at the time, and are reprinted from our Triennial Record: 

How often in the diamond's mimic war 
We marked his crouching form spring to its height, 

Ami. like the shaft of Koine's young emperor. 
His swift hall speed in its unerring flight ! 

And, when the losing game was almost done. 
How we awaited] all expectantly, 

His long, hard hit that earned the run — 

His daring dash that scored the victory! 

So ever in our eyes his form will stand 

\n antique athlete in a modern pose. 
Gracefully tall, with ready hat in hand, 

While hi- face in proud assurance glows. 



V I',]" 



NECROLOGY 249 

" Handsome as Commodus," you say — 
The beau ideal of jeunesse dor4e! 

Elberon, June 24, 1891. 

A gilded youth ! No ! Heart of gold ! Once more 
A desperate chance he dared, a life to save; 

Nor, till the sea its victim from him tore, 
Sank spent at last beneath the swirling wave ! 

Frederick C. Bttcher, M. D. Died October 30, 1906. 

Married Estella Brandt, Mount Joy, Pa., Oct. 30, 1895. Children, 
Frederick Brandt, b. Oct. 24, 1896. Martha Elizabeth, b. 
Nov. 28, 1898. 

Freddy Bucher entered the medical department of the Uni- 
versity of Pennsylvania in the fall of '92 and received his 
degree in 1895. In August of that year he located in Wrights- 
ville, York Co., Pa., where he remained until April, 1899, mov- 
ing then to Columbia, Pa. Here he practiced until February, 
1905, when failing health compelled him to give up work. He 
died at Mount Joy on October 30, 1906. While at Wrights- 
ville Bucher joined the York County Medical Society and the 
State Medical Society. At Columbia he became a member of 
the Lancaster County Society and was a member of the staff of 
the Columbia Hospital. A career of marked usefulness seemed 
to be lying before him, and it was with a great shock that we 
heard of his death. 

Green Clay, Jr. Died May 3, 1896. 

Elmer Baldwin Cole. Died November 23, 1897. 

Cole died of consumption November 23, 1897, at his home 
near Windsor, N. J. The year after graduation he taught at 
the Dupuy School, Trenton. In the fall of '93 he was called 
to the Classical Department of Peddie Institute at Hightstown 
where he remained until a few months before his death. He 



860 PRINCETON NINETY-TWO 

was an enthusiastic and successful teacher, ami his loss was 

deeply felt at the Institute whore he was doing such excellent 
work. 

Leavttt Howe, Jr. Died August 84, 1889. 
Leaviti Howe was horn in Princeton, December (i. 1869, and 

was prepared to enter college with the class of' '1)1 : on account 
of ill health went to Colorado in September, 1SS7. returning in 
July, 1SSS. He entered college that September with us, hut 
illness prevented his remaining more than a few months. He 
had considerable talent for artistic work, and was occupied 
♦luring the last year of his life in painting, drawing, and 
carving. 

I'vurs Ciniicii driri ksox. Died dune 4, 1893. 

The following notice oi' Jeff is taken from the Triennial: 
" Cyrus Jefferson died oi' appendicitis at his home in St. Paul 
on dune t. 1893. He joined the Class at the beginning of 
Sophomore year and left at the close oi' Junior year; hut his 
interest in the (Mass and in the college was ever active, and only 
a week before he died he wrote to the Secretary in eager antici- 
pation oi' meeting us again at our first annual reunion. It is 
hard to analyze his character and in cold type declare the 
reasons why we loved him. And yet he was lined. His kindly, 
sympathetic, simple-hearted nature won him many friends. He 
was a manly man: yet, with all his unusual physical strength, 
as gentle as a child, a true and loyal friend — a Christian." 

James Peteb Kino. Died November, 1897. 

Hugh Archie Lynn. Diet! January '2, 1896. 

Lynn died at his home, Torkio, Mo., on January 8, 1896. 
On graduation he went to Avalon, Mo., to till the Chair of Latin 



NECROLOGY 251 

at Avalon College. There he remained for a year and a half 
doing admirable work until ill health compelled him to resign. 
He had high aspirations and noble ambitions and it seemed that 
he was beginning a life of more than ordinary usefulness. But 
overwork sapped his vitality and after his resignation he stead- 
ily declined. He was a loyal Princetonian. 

Irvine McColl. Died July 31, 1894. 

Arthur M. Minot. Died r~k 

Samuel J. Minot. Died May 16, 1898. 

John Walter Parker. Died August 23, 1902. 

Parker died on August 23, 1902. We reprint below a little 
account of him taken from the 1903 Necrological Report of 
Princeton Theological Seminary, from Bob Bennett's record 
of him — Bob being secretary of his class in the Seminary — 
and from a letter of Biederwolf : 

Tommy Parker was the son of the Rev. George Dickey and 
Elizabeth (Matthews) Parker, and was born Sept. 29, 1867, in 
Edinburg, Ind. His preparatory studies were pursued in the 
Normal College of Danville, Ind., and at his home in Cutler, 
Ind. He entered Wabash College, but did not remain long, 
going to Princeton in 1888 and being graduated from that col- 
lege in 1892. He entered the Seminary at Princeton the same 
year, taking the full three years' course and being graduated in 
1895. While a student in the Seminary he spent his first vaca- 
tion in work in the Bowery Mission, New York, the second at the 
Moody Bible Institute, Chicago, and also in supplying the 
church at Fowler, Ind., and the third in supplying the 
church at Muncie, Ind. He was licensed by the Presbytery of 
Muncie, Oct. 14, 1895, and at the same time ordained an evan- 



252 PRINCETON NINETY-TWO 

gelist. Immediately upon his ordination he began serving the 
church at Green sburg, Ind., as stated supply, and continued 
to do so until October, 1900, when ill health obliged him to 
sever his connection with this congregation. Early in 1902 
he began what proved to be his last earthly toil as acting pastor 
of the First Church of Indianapolis. These labors were cut 
short by his death, Aug. 23, 1902, in Converse, Ind., of typhoid 
fever, in the 35th year of his age. He was on his way to 
Winona Lake to do some studying there with Biederwolf, and 
had stopped off at Converse, where his parents lived. He was 
buried at Converse. Biederwolf officiated at the funeral. A 
memorial volume of his sermons was published by his friends 
in the First Church of Indianapolis under the title, " The 
Right Emphasis and other Sermons," 1902. Parker was 
unmarried. 

Pierre K. Satterfield. Died November, 1890. 

Charles Henry Schick. Died January 20, 1904. 

In March, 1904, the Secretary received the following letter 
from Robert P. Schick, '90, brother of our Billy : 

" University Club 
" 1510 Walnut Street 
" Philadelphia, March 17, 1904. 
" Dear Mr. Prentice : 

" I wish to inform you, as Secretary of the Class of '92, for 
the information of '92 men, of my brother Charles H. Schick's 
death on January 20th last. He had been ailing from the 
nervous shock caused by our mother's death last summer and 
in a fit of despondency put an end to his life. A farewell mes- 
sage was inter alia : ' I suffer much in my head, so say " J'ai 
fini " to this world.' " Very truly yours, 

" Robert P. Schick, '90." 



L. Howe, Jr. C. C. Jefferson 



C. Wight A. 0. Young 



NECROLOGY 253 

John Tredinnick. Died July 15, 1891. 

Calvin Wight, A. M. Died July 13, 1899. 

Married Ida Jean Emerick, Chefoo, China, Dec. 7, 1897. Chil- 
dren, Fannie Emerick, b. January 17, 1899- 

Calvin Wight died of pneumonia on July 13, 1899, at 
Chinan-fu, China, where he had been a missionary for four 
years. The son of the Rev. Joseph Kingsbury and Elizabeth 
(Van Dyke) Wight, he was born September 8, 1861, in New 
Hamburg, N. Y. He entered college in 1881 with the Class of 
1885, but owing to ill health brought on by over study to make 
up deficiencies due to lack of preparatory work he was compelled 
to leave college, and on medical advice went to sea for a number 
of years, shipping as a sailor before the mast. He traveled 
thus all over the seven seas and visited more ports in the 
civilized and uncivilized countries than most of us know any- 
thing about ; and it was because of his numerous shipwrecks 
and other seafaring adventures that we called him " Sinbad." 
But it was a difficult thing to get this gentle-voiced, blond- 
bearded giant to tell anything about his experiences — the muti- 
nies and fights and narrow escapes in which he had been either 
participant or spectator — for he was one of the most modest 
men that ever lived. He had been through his seven years of 
sea service for but one purpose — to regain his health in order 
to prepare himself for the missionary work on which his heart 
was set. And thus it was that he returned to Princeton and 
entered our class, of which his brother, E. Van Dyke, was 
already a member. He spent the year after graduation in the 
Congregational Theological Seminary at Chicago. In 1893 
he entered the Princeton Theological Seminary and was 
graduated in 1895. Having been already licensed to preach, 
he was ordained an evangelist in June, 1895, and in September 
he sailed from San Francisco for China, where he selected 



254 PRINCETON NINETY-TWO 

Chinan-fu, the capital of the Shantung province, as his field 
of labor. At Chefoo on December 7, 1897, he married Miss 
Ida Jean Emerick, who with one daughter, Fannie Emerick, 
born January, 1899, survives him. 

Four years seem a short time to be given a man for work 
to which he has been devoted from boyhood and for which he 
has prepared himself during fourteen years of ill health and 
hard study. But Sinbad accepted it all as being for the best, 
with never a murmur ; and he has won his reward. 

William H. Witt. Died September 16, 1895. 

John A. Yorke. Died August 7, 1890. 

Alexander Oliver Young. Died April 28, 1893. 

Fiji Young died of appendicitis on April 28, 1893, at the 
age of twenty-two. After graduation with us in the preceding 
June, he entered the Harvard Law School and settled down to 
hard work. He was a member of the Story Law Club, and 
during his brief course made many friends. Attacked by 
appendicitis, he was taken to the Massachusetts General Hos- 
pital, Boston, for operation, but his constitution, weakened by 
the confinement of his studies and by lack of exercise, could 
not stand the shock. Fiji was the Varsity shortstop for part 
of the season of '91. His unassuming manner, his honest work 
and his contagious laugh made him one of the most popular 
men in college. Those who knew him intimately, however, 
cherished his friendship because of his high ideals of what 
friendship meant, because of his utter lack of self-conceit and 
selfish motive, and because of his great, strong. Lovable nature. 
Jesse Williams wrote the notice of him that was printed in 
the Pr'uircton'itin at the time of his death, and resolutions were 
passed by the Law School class to which he belonged. They 
also appear in the Princetonian. 






THE HOT AIR FURNACE 

OK 

NINETY-TWO IN LITERATURE 

IF we except the Nassau Herald and a little pamphlet pub- 
lished at Princeton in 1891 entitled " Key to the Tiger " — 
a valuable work, for a copy of which the University Library 
would pay good money now, in the interests of its collection of 
Princetoniana — Ninety-Two made its first appearance in liter- 
ature in a sixteen-page octavo publication called " '92 Com- 
mencement Orations," edited, we believe, by Charlie Mudge and 
containing the impassioned Valedictory on " Loyalty " by our 
esteemed Secretary, Gresham's popular oration on " A Reason- 
able Irrationalism," and Jesse Williams' Class Poem with its 
haunting last line : 

" Return, O strange, sweet dreaming time called Youth." 

Since then the Class has, on the whole, not gone extensively 
into the writing business. Besides the journalists Alter, Con- 
well, Magie, Peddie and Phinizy, we have only one man, Jesse 
Williams, who has devoted himself to the making of literature ; 
but at least twenty-five more have dabbled in it one way or 
another. The list that appears here pretends to completion 
neither as regards authors nor titles. A number of fellows have 
written things and got them published, but won't tell ; and many 
of those who have named their sins of Hot Air commission have 
been guilty also of the sin of omission by neglecting to complete 
their lists. We print the results as they are, and you will find 

them a very curious lot. „, _, 

Ihe Lditors. 

255 



256 PRINCETON NINETY-TWO 

ATKINSON 

1. The Relation of the Toxicity of Diphtheria Toxin to its 
Neutralizing Value upon Antitoxin at Different Stages in the 
Growth of Cultures. By Dr. William H. Park and J. P. A., 
(Jour, of Exp. Med., Vol. 3, Nos. 4 and 5.) 

2. A Criticism of " Die Wertbemessung des Diphtherieheil- 
serums und deren theoretische Grundlagen." Von Professor 
Dr. P. Ehrlich. 

3. Strum Globulin and Diphtheric Antitoxin. A Comparative 
Study of the Amount of Globulin in Normal and Antitoxic Sera 
and thi' Relation of the Globulins to the Antitoxic Bodies. By 
Philip H. Hiss and J. P. A. (Jour. Exp. .1/<y7.. Vol. 5, No. 1.) 

4. Fractional Precipitation of the Globulin and Albumin of 
Normal Horse's Serum and Diphtheria Antitoxic Serum and 
the Antitoxic Strength of the Precipitates. (Jour. Exp. Med.. 
Vol. 5, No. 1.) 

5. The Period of Development, the Time of Greatest Accu- 
mulation and the Persistence of Diphtheric Antitoxin in the 
Blood of a Series of One Hundred Horses. (Jour, of Med. 
Research, Vol. 9, No. 2.) 

BAILEY 

Text Book of Histology. (William Wood & Co. 1904. 
Second Edition 1906.) 

BENNETT 

1. The Office of the Elder. (Phila. 1906.) 

2. Spiritual Atmospheres. (Germantown 1903.) 

3. This Nation on the Lord's Side. (Phila. 1900.) 

4. Princeton Theological Seminary Class of 1895 Records. 
No. 1, 1896. No. 2, 1901. 

5. In the House of Simon. A novelette published in The 
Westminster, Dec. 24 and 31, 1904, and Jan. 7, 14 and 21, 1905. 



IN LITERATURE 257 

BIEDERWOLF 

1. History of the 161st Regiment of Indiana Volunteer 
Infantry. 

2. A Help to the Study of the Holy Spirit. (Chicago 
1902.) 

3. How Can God Answer Prayer? (Chicago 1906.) 

4. The Growing Christian. (Chicago 1904.) 

5. The White Life. (Chicago 1898. 30th thousand.) 

6. The Personal Worker's New Testament. Arranged by 
J. W. Chapman, W. E. Biederwolf, R. A. Walton and H. 
Ostrom. (Chicago 1906.) 

7. Christian Science Tested by Revelation, Medicine and 
Theology. 

All of Bid's books are published by the Winona Publishing 
Company of Chicago. 

BIERLY 

1. Monograph on the Development of the Conception of 
God. 

2. Pamphlet on Comparative Development of the Child. 
Also a " number of articles and addresses on educational 
subjects." 

H. C. BUTLER 

1. Scotland's Ruined Abbeys. New York (Macmillan) 1899. 

2. Story of Athens. New York (Century Co.) 1902. 

3. Publications of an American Archaeological Expedition 
to Syria in 1899-1900. Part II. (Architecture.) New York 
(Century Co.) 1903. 

4. Articles in Architecture § Building, 1894-1899. 

5. Articles in American Journal of Archaeology. 

6. Articles in Revue Archeologique, 1901, 1905-1907. 



258 PRINCETON NINETY-TWO 

7. Articles In Century Magazine. 

8. Articles in The American Architect. 

9. Articles in Indoors and Out. 

10. Articles in Princeton University Bulletin, etc., etc. 

CARTER 

1. Malaria in New York City. F. P. Solley, M. D., and 
H. S. Carter, M. D. {Medical-Surgical Report of the Presby- 
terian Hospital, N. Y. 1898.) 

2. Some Observations on Blood Pressure. (Am. Jour. Med. 
Sciences. Dec. 1901.) 

3. A Contribution to Cyto-Diagnosis in Pleural Effusions, 
with Special Reference to the Tuberculous Form. (The Medi- 
cal News, Oct. 1, 1901.) 

1. Report on the Clinical Chemistry of the Blood in Various 
Diseases. (N. Y. State Journal of Med. Dec. 1906.) 

CHURCH 

1. Sketches of the New Jersey Historical Society. (New- 
ark 1891.) 

2. Dictionary of Quotations. 

3. " A few poems." 

COLLINS 

1. Index to the American Journal of Archceology, Vols. 
I-XI. (Princeton 1899.) 

2. Newark Bibliography : Books, pamphlets and newspapers 
printed at Newark, N. J. 1776-1900. (With F. P. Hill.) 
(Privately printed, 1902.) 

3. A Brief Narrative of the Ravages of the British and 
Hessians at Princeton 1776-1777. (Princeton 1906.) 

4. Nassau Hall : Address before the N. J. Society of Colonial 
Dames. (Princeton 1906.) 



IN LITERATURE 259 

5. The Continental Congress at Princeton in 1783. (In 
press.) 

6. George Whitefield and the College of New Jersey. 
(Princeton University Bulletin, Vol. IX., p. 23.) 

7. Letter of Philip Freneau to James Madison. (Ibid., Vol. 
X,p. 15.) 

8. Valedictory Oration of Ashbel Green, 1783. (Ibid., Vol. 
XL, p. 20.) 

9. Princeton Addresses to Washington. (Ibid., Vol. XL, 
p. 54.) 

10. Bibliography of William Henry Green. (Ibid., Vol. XL, 
p. 67.) 

11. Bibliography of John T. Duffield. (Ibid., Vol. XII., 
p. 92.) 

12. Indian Wards at Princeton. (Ibid., Vol. XIII., p. 101.) 

13. " Prospect, Near Princeton." (Ibid., Vol. XV., p. 164.) 

14. The Universities and the Encouragement of Serious 
Reading. (Amer. Library Journal, 1903, p. 233.) 

15. Review of Evans's " American Bibliography." (Ibid., 

1904, p. 30.) 

16- Review of Bethleem's " Roman a lire et romans a pro- 
serin." (Ibid., 1905, p. 488.) 

17. Princeton's Preceptorial System and the University 
Library. (Ibid., 1906, p. 163.) 

18. Princeton and the Church. (The Churchman 1897.) 
And various reviews and obituary notices of alumni in the 

Princeton University Bulletin, Vols. X., XL, XIV. and XV. 

CRITCHLOW 

On the Forms of Betrothal and Wedding Ceremonies in the 
Old French Romances of Adventure. (Modern Philology, April 

1905, pp. 497-537.) 

Also several book reviews in Modern Language Notes. 



260 PRINCETON NINETY-TWO 

DaCOSTA 

1. Clinical Hematology. (Phila. 1902. Second Edition 
Phila. and London 1904.) 

2. Surgical Hematology. (Phila. 1906.) 

3. Manual of diagnosis. (Phila. 1907.) 

H. S. DAVIS (Incomplete list.) 

1. Perpetual Calendar. (Milford, Del., 1887; Second Edi- 
tion, Princeton 1892.) 

2. Glossary to Homer's Iliad with text of Books XVI., 
XVIII., XXII. (Princeton 1888 ; Second Edition, Princeton 
1892.) 

3. Seven Months' Cruise in a Man-of-War. (Dover 1890.) 

4. Total Solar Eclipse of December 22, 1889. (Bait. Ameri- 
can, March 9, 1890.) 

5. Modern Progress in Astronomy. (Princeton 1892.) 

6. Rediscussion of Bessel's Determination of the Relative 
Parallaxes of f* and 6 Cassiopeiae. (N. Y. Acad, of Sci. 
Transactions, Vol. XIII., p. 75.) 

7. A Novelist's Astronomical Blunder. (The Observatory, 
April 1894.) 

8. Mean Epochs of Observations of the DLX Stars of the 
Abo Catalogue of Argelander. (Astron. Journal, 1894, No. 
328.) 

9. Parallax of f} Cassiopeiae Deduced from the Rutherford 
Photographic Measures. (N. Y. Acad, of Sci. Annals, Vol. 
VIII., p. 301.) 

10. Catalogue of Sixty-two Stars about f} Cassiopeiae from 
the Rutherford Photographic Measures. (N. Y. Acad, of Sci. 
Annals, Vol. VIII., p. 381.) 

11. Declinations and Proper Motions of Fifty-six Stars 
Used in the Variation of Latitude Investigation at New York 
and Naples. (N. Y. Acad, of Sci. Memoir I., Part 1.) 



IN LITERATURE 261 

12. Methods Employed in Deducing Definitive Declinations 
and Proper Motions of Fifty-six Stars. (N. Y. Acad, of Sci. 
Transactions, Vol. XIV., p. 69.) 

13. Oudeman's " Declinationes 101 Stellarum " with Reduc- 
tion to the A. G. C. System. (Astronomische Nachrichten 
3395.) 

14. Some Calculating Machines. (Pop. Astron., Vol. IV., 
1896.) 

15. Life of David Rittenhouse. (Pop. Astron., Vol. IV., 
1896.) 

16. Account of Astronomical Work for Which an Observa- 
tory Will Probably be Established at Dover, Del. (Dover 
Index, July 23, 1896.) 

17. Catalogue of Sixty-five Stars near 61 1 Cygni. (Colum- 
bia Univ. Observatory Contributions, No. 12.) 

18. The Parallax of 61 1 Cygni. (Columbia Univ. Obs. Con- 
trib., No. 13.) 

19. Catalogue of Thirty-four Stars near Bradley 3077. 
(Columbia Univ. Obs. Contrvb., No. 14.) 

20. Computation Forms for the Use of Classes in Practical 
Astronomy. (Milford 1897.) 

21. Progress of the New Reduction of Piazzi's Star Obser- 
vations. (N. Y. 1899.) 

22. Table for the Linear Interpolation of Numbers Whose 
Logarithms Are Given. (Wash. 1900.) 

23. The Variation of Latitude at New York; The Constant 
of Aberration. (Astron. Jour., 1897-1900, pp. 401, 451, 474.) 

24. Deterioration of Celluloid Films for Photographic Pur- 
poses. (Science, 1898, p. 8.) 

25. The Present State of Progress of the New Reduction of 
Piazzi's Star Observations. (Science, 1900, p. 11.) 

26. Mathematical Symbols. (Pop. Astron., 1897, p. 5.) 

27. Biographical Sketches of Women Astronomers. (Pop. 
Astron., 1898.) 



262 PRINCETON NINETY-TWO 

28. Parallaxes of 61 * and 62 2 Cygni. (Pop. Astron., 1898.) 

29. Physical Connections. (Pop. Astron., 1898.) 

30. Outlines of the History of Astronomy. (Pop. Astron., 
1898.) 

31. The Dial of Ahaz. (Pop. Astron., 1899.) 

32. A Lunar Rainbow at the Straits of Gibraltar. (Pop. 
Astron., 1899.) 

ELMER 

1. The Price of Gold. (Engineering Magazine, Sept. 1896, 
p. 1184.) 

2. The Use of Electric Power in Small Units. (Eng. Mag., 
Nov. 1896, p. 233.) 

3. The Fire Risk in Belt Transmission of Power. (Electrical 
World, Nov. 14, 1896, p. 588.) 

4. The Street Car Brake Tests. (Railroad Gazette, April 
14,1899.) 

5. A Possible Solution of the Coupler Problem. (R. R. 
Gazette, June 9, 1899.) 

6. Locomotive Designs. (R. R. Gazette, Oct. 27, 1899.) 

FARR 

1. Notes on the Osteology of the White River Horses (in 
Proceedings of Amer. Philosophical Society, Vol. XXXV., pp. 
147-175). 

2. Check List of New York Birds. (Bulletin 33, N. Y. 
State Museum, April 1900. Second Edition, Nov. 1900.) 

FARRAND 

1. Legislation of Congress for the Government of the Organ- 
ized Territories of the United States. (Newark 1896.) 

2. Compromises of the Constitution. (Amer. Hist. Rev., 
Vol. 9, No. 3.) 



IN LITERATURE 263 

3. Delaware Bill of Rights of 1776. (Amer. Hist. Rev., 
Vol. 3, No. 4.) 

4. Judiciary Act of 1801. (Amer. Hist. Rev., Vol. 5, 
No. 4). 

5. Taxation of Tea 1767-1773. (Amer. Hist. Rev., Vol. 3, 
No. 2.) 

6. Territory and District. (Amer. Hist. Rev., Vol. 5, 
No. 4.) 

7. Jellinek's Declaration of the Rights of Man and of Citi- 
zens. Translated by M. Farrand. 1901. 

GIBBY 

Papers on medical subjects, titles not given. 

J. Y. GRAHAM 

Beitrage zur Naturgeschichte der Trichina Spiralis. (Arch. 
f. Micro. Anat., 1897), and the following lectures: "Nature 
Study" (Ala. Educ. Assoc), "Evolution and Christian Be- 
lief" (Y. M. C. A.), "Kant's Relation to Evolution Theory" 
(Kant Jubileum), " Science: Methods, Scope, Ideals." 

HALE 

1. Human Anatomy. Phila. 1903 (in the Medical Epitome 
Series). 

2. Broncho-pneumonia (in Reference Handbook of Medical 
Sciences. Wm. Wood & Co. 1902.) 

3. Fibroid Pneumonia (in same). 

4. Physical Signs in Diagnosis of Fractures. (Amer. Jour, 
of Surgery, 1902.) 

5. Lecture on Bacteria in Everyday Life, and Milk and Its 
Care, with Special Reference to Infant Feeding. 



264 PRINCETON NINETY-TWO 

HANSON 

The Art of Spiritual Husbandry. 

Series of papers dealing with problems of child life, titles 
not given. 

HARRIS 

Laos Book of Forms for Public Worship. (Chiengmai, 
1902.) 

HODGE 

" My articles are few and far between, and my reviews are 
too numerous to hunt up and list. Two articles in the Presby- 
terian and Reformed Review; one (written jointly with G. A. 
Tawney) in the Psychological Review; one in Hastings' Dic- 
tionary of Christ and the Gospels; a discussion in the Philo- 
sophical Review; and numerous reviews in the Psychological 
Review, the Presbyterian and Reformed Review and the Prince- 
ton Theological Review — this general statement should suffice." 

HULETT 

1. Ueber die Reinigung des Wassers durch Distillation. 
{Zest. f. Phijs. Chem., 21, 297-301. 1896.) 

2. Der Stetige Uebergang fest-flussig. (Zeit. f. Phys. 
Chem., 28, 629-672. 1899.) 

3. Ueber Kalibrierung einer Glasrohr und einige Kompress- 
ibilitateskoeffizienten. (Zeit. f. Phys. Chem., 33, 237-244, 
1900.) 

4. Die Distillation von Amalgam und die Reinigung des 
Quecksilbers. (Zeit. f. Phys. Chem., 33, 611-621. 1900.) 

5. Beziehung zwischen Oberflachenspannung und Loslich- 
keit. (Zeit. f. Phtjs. Chem., 37, 385-406. 1901.) 

6. The Solubility of Gypsum. (G. A. Hulett and L. E. 
Allen.) (Jour. Amer. Chem. Soc, 24, 667-680. 1902.) 



IN LITERATURE 265 

7. Beziehung zwischen negatievem Druck und osmotischem 
Druck. (Zeit. f. Phys. Chem., 42, 353-368, Q 1902.) 

8. Gesattigte Gipslosungen als Basis fiir Leitfahigkeit. 
(Zeit. f. Phys. Chem., 42, 577-583. 1903.) 

9. Loslichkeit und Korngrosse. Erwiederung an Professor 
F. Kohlrausch. (Zeit. f. Phys. Chem., 47, 357-367. 1904.) 

10. Chlor in dem mittelst Chlorbarium neidergeschlagenen 
Bariumsulphat. (With L. H. Duschak.) (Zeit. f. Anorg. 
Chem., 40, 196-217. 1904.) 

11. A Study of the Materials Used in Standard Cells and 
Their Preparation. (With Professor H. S. Carhart.) (Pro- 
ceedings of the Int. Electrical Congress, St. Louis. ) 

12. Quecksilbersulphat und die Normalelemente. (Zeit. f. 
Phys. Chem., 49, 483-501. 1904.) 

13. Volatilization of Platinum. (With H. W. Berger.) 
(Jour. Amer. Chem. Soc, 26, 1513-1516. 1904.) 

14. The Solubility of Gypsum as Affected by Size of Par- 
ticles and by Different Crystallographic Surfaces. (Jour. 
Amer. Chem. Soc, 27, 49-56. 1905.) 

15. A Low Voltage Standard Cell. (Trans. Amer. Electro- 
chemical Soc, 333-339. 1905.) 

16. Preparation of Nitrogen from the Atmosphere. (Jour. 
Amer. Chem. Soc, 47, 1415-1418. 1905.) 

17. The Volumetric Composition of Water. (School Science, 
5,453. 1905.) 

18. The Distillation of Amalgams an!2345e6taoic V-23456 
Mercury. (With H. D. Minchin.) (Physical Review, 21, 388- 
398. 1905.) 

19. Mercurous Sulphate and the Standard Cells. (Physical 
Review, 22, 320-338. 1906.) 

20. The Cadmium Standard Cell. (Trans. Amer. Electro- 
chemical Soc. 1906.) 

21. The Cadmium Standard Cell. (Phys. Rev., 23, 166-183 
1906.) 



266 PRINCETON NINETY-TWO 

S. C. HUSTON 
The Satiated Age. {Century, date not given.) 

LAUGHLIN 

1. Solecisms of the Apocalypse. Princeton 1903. 

2. The Pastorals in the Light of one Roman Imprisonment. 
San Francisco 1905. 

McWILLIAMS. 

1. Movable Kidney and the Results of Operation in 61 
Cases. {Medical News, Oct. 4, 1902.) 

2. Results of Operation in 100 Cases of Cancer of the 
Breast. {Med. News, Apr. 28, 1900.) 

3. Treatment of Ingrowing Toe Nail. {N. Y. Med. Jour., 
June 20, 1903.) 

4. Dupuytren's Finger Contraction. {N. Y. Med. Jour., 
Oct. 8, 1904.) 

5. Report of 86 Cases of Intestinal Obstruction Following 
Appendicitis Operations. {Med. Nexvs. Sept. 3 and 10, 1904.) 

6. Tumors of the Kidneys. (In " Reference Handbook of 
Medical Sciences.") 

7. Report of 33 Cases of Intestinal Obstruction Following 
Attacks of Unoperated Appendicitis. (A\ Y. Med. Jour., Feb. 
25 and Mar. 4, 1905.) 

8. Critical Analysis of 186 Operations on the Liver and 
Gall Passages. {N. Y. Med. Jour., June 2, 9, 16, 1906.) 

9. Infections with the Bacterium Coli Commune with Par- 
ticular Reference to the Urinary Tract. {Med. Record, July, 
1906.) 

R. K. MILLER. 

The following opera are published by Schirmer of N. Y. City : 



IN LITERATURE 267 

Op. 3. Ricordanza. (Piano.) 

Op. 4. Scherzo Symphonique. (Organ.) 

Op. 5. Scherzo Waltz. (Piano.) 

Op. 6. Nocturne and Epilogue. (Organ.) 

Op. 7. Festival March. (Organ.) 

These four organ pieces are in the catalogue of Fischer & 
Bros., of N. Y. City: 

Op. 11. Festival Postlude. 

Op. 12. Impromptu. 

Op. 13. Cortege. 

Op. 14. Elegy. 

These anthems and service scores are published by Oliver 
Ditson & Co., of Boston. 

1. Benedictus in E. 

2. Agnus Dei. 

3. Turn Thy Face. 

4. Angels from the Realms of Glory (Christmas Anthem). 

5. Op. 9. For Thee, Dear, Dear Country. 

6. O Come, All Ye Faithful (Christmas Anthem). 

7. What is Death? (Funeral Anthem.) 

8. Words That Stabbed. 

C. O. MUDGE 

Several articles in missionary and church magazines, titles 
not given. 

W. L. MUDGE 

1. Historical sketch of the First Presbyterian Church of 
Phoenixville, Pa. Phoenixville 1897. 

2. Lecture on " The Land of Evangeline in Story and 
in Song." 

PARKER 

The Right Emphasis and other Sermons. Indianapolis, 1902. 



268 PRINCETON NINETY-TWO 

PHINIZY 

1. Complaint to the Railroad Commission of Georgia against 
the Georgia Railroad and Banking Company. 1907. 

2. Amendment to Complaint. 1907. 

PRENTICE 

1. Dion Chrysostom: The Hunters of Euboea. Edited with 
notes. Boston 1897. 

2. De Bacchylide Pindari artis socio et imitatore. Halle 
1900. 

3. Mosaic inscriptions from the bath at Serdjilla. (Revue 
Archeologique, 1901, p. 68 ff. 

4. Die Bauinschriften des Heiligthums auf dem Djebel Shekh 
Berekat. (Hermes, 1902, p. 91 ff.) 

5. Fragments of an Early Christian Liturgy in Syrian 
Inscriptions. (Amer. Philological Association Transactions, 
1902, p. 81 ff.) 

6. The so-called Tomb of Diogenes in Hass. (Princeton Uni- 
versity Bulletin, 1903, p. 14 ff.) 

7. Bishop Pococke and the Tomb of Abedrapsas. (Ibid., 
1904, p. 224. ff.) 

8. Magical Formulae on Lintels of the Christian Period 
in Syria. (Amer. Jour, of Archaeology, 1906, p. 137 ff.) 

9. Publications of an American Archaeological Expedition 
in Syria in 1899-1900. Part III., N. Y., 1907. 

SAILER 

Hollingsworth on Contracts. Phila. 1896. 

STEVENSON 

1. The Spook in the Closet. (Prize story in Life, 1900.) 

2. The Poor in Summer (Scribner's, Sept. 1901.) 



IN LITERATURE 269 

3. The Starboard Watch. (Scribner's, Oct. 1904.) 

4. The Union and Billy Bell. (Scribner's, April 1901.) 

5. Saloons. (Scribner's, May 1901.) 

VAN DEUSEN 

1. Private Corporation Securities. (N. Y. Bankers' Maga- 
zine, Nov. and Dec. 1906, Jan. 1907.) 

2. Farm Mortgage Loans and Investments. (Ibid., Feb. 
1907.) 

3. Stock Shares of Private Corporations, and Company Cap- 
italization. (Ibid., Mar. 1907.) 

4. Municipal Bonds. (To appear in the same magazine.) 

5. Electric Interurban Railways. (To appear in the same 
magazine.) 

6. Contributions to a symposium on Industrial Bonds as 
@n Investment Security. (To appear in the Annals of the 
American Academy of Political and Social Science in Septem- 
ber, 1907.) 

VREELAND 

1. Selections from Gil Bias, with introduction and notes. 
N. Y. (Holt) 1900. 

2. Etude sur les rapports litteraires entre Geneve et l'Angle- 
terre (Geneva 1901). 

3. French Lessons, in collaboration with Professor W. 
Koren. N. Y. (Holt) 1907. 

WILLIAMS (Incomplete list.) 

Princeton Stories. N. Y. (Scribner's) 1895. 
The Stolen Story and Other Newspaper Stories. N. Y. 
(Scribner's) 1899. 

The Adventures of a Freshman. N. Y. 1899. 
Rudyard Kipling. N. Y. (Scribner's) 1899. 



&70 PRINCETON NINETY-TWO 

New York Sketches. N. V. (Scribner*s) 1000. 
Historv of Princeton University, in collaboration with John 
DeWitt, (Four Universities and Their Sons.) 
The Daydreamer, a novel. N. Y. 1906. 
Mv Lost Duchess, a novelette (in press). 
The Burglar and the Lady, (Scribner's, Nov. 1900.) 
Harvest (ScrifmerX January 1902.) 
Rural New York City. {Scribiur's. Au^. 1901.) 
Saratoga and Its People. (Outing, Dee. 1902.) 
Walk Uptown. {Scribnrr's. dan. 1900.) 
Woodrow Wilson. (McClure's, Oct 1902.) 
Workers of the Great Lakes. {Outing. Nov, 1905.) 
Day of the Game. (Outing, Sox. 1906.) 
Everetl Colby. {Outlook. Feb. 24, 1906.) 
Girl from the Machine, (Scribner's, Oct 1906.) 

Instead of Fraternities. (Bachelor of Arts. dan. 1896.) 
The Little Brother. {Harper's liazar. 180;?.) 
When Girls Come to Princeton. (Harper's Bazar, 1893.) 
Lawrence the Halfback. (Harper's Young People, 189S.) 
In Football Season. (University Magazine, 1893. Illus. 
by Booth Tarkington.) 
Rodge. {Fashions. 1898.) 
Karita Besida. {Fashions. 1898.) 
The World at Twenty-five, {Scribiwr's. 1896.) 
The Business of a Great Hotel. (Scribner's, 1807.) 
The Spectator. {Outlook. 1807.) 
Book Reviews in Boofc Buyer, 1807-1800. 
The Girl and the Game. (Harper's, 1898.) 
New York Correspondence in Hook News, 1808 and 1800. 
The Real One. {Scribner's. 1800.) 
Nathan. Man-About-Town. (Harper's, 1800.) 
The Bargain. (Criterion, 1800.) 
Commencement at Princeton. (Cottier's, 1000.) 
The Girl and the Professor. {CoUicr's. 1001.) 



IN LITERATURE 271 

A group of college stories in the Saturday Evening Post 
during 1898-1900: "At the Corner of Lovers' Lane"; 
"The Great College-Circus Fight"; "The Reformation of 
Reddy Armstrong," and " The Story of the Corpse." 

Three stories in the Youth's Companion prior to 1900 : 
" The Man in the Window " ; " C. C." ; and " Hans, Where 
Are You? " 

Working Through College. (Ladies' Home Journal, 1898.) 
A Princeton Commencement. (Readers' Magazine, 1904.) 
Lost. (Collier's, 1903.) 

The David Harum of the Cabinet. (Sat. Eve. Post., 1902.) 
Talks with a Kid Brother at College. (Six articles in Col- 
lier's, 1902-03.) 

The Board Walk at Atlantic City. (Collier's, 1903). 
James M. Barrie, a Triumph of Personality. (Appleton's, 
1906.) 

Putting on a Play. (Sat. Eve. Post, 1907.) 

The Gates of the City. (Century, 1907.) 

The Making of a Magazine. (Interior, 1899.) 

The Princeton Sesquicentennial. (Golden Rule, 1896.) 

How Dixon Did. (Golden Rule, 1900.) 

Secretary Shaw. (Golden Rule, 1903.) 

A Plea for the Pun. (Sat. Eve. Post, 1903.) 

The Old Hunting and the New. (Sat. Eve. Post, 1903.) 

WITHERSPOON 

Business and Religion. 

WOODS 

Report of a Case of Brown-Sequard Paralysis. (Med. Jour. ) 
Report of 210 Cases of Ventro Suspension of the Uterus. 
(Med. Jour.) 

Report of a Case of Suburethral Abscess. (Med. Jour.) 
The Ringing of the Bell. (McClure's, July 1904.) 






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SUMMARY 

Total of graduates, non-graduates and deceased, 209. 

Married, 118. 

Fathers, 75. 

Children: Boys, 66; Girls, 74. Total 140. Deceased, 9, 
(Boys, 5; Girls, 4). Total living, 131. 

Occupations : Army, 2 ; Art, 1 ; Architecture, 2 ; Author- 
ship, 1 ; Banking and Broking, 9 ; Business, 27 ; Commercial 
Chemistry, 2 ; Civil Service, 1 ; Engineering, 10 ; Insurance, 3 ; 
Journalism, 5 ; Law, 37 ; Medicine, 21 ; Ministry, 22 ; Music, 1 ; 
Politics, 1 ; Railroading, 2; Teaching, 18; Unoccupied, 1. 

Spanish War Veterans, 10. 

Deceased, 23. 

Whereabouts unknown: Borgmeyer, Brotherlin, Brown, W. 
S., Driwiies, English, Freeman, Graham, R. D., Graham, W. M., 
Gray, C. A., Lakey, -Skiles. Total, 11. 






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